{"product_id":"inez-isbn-9780156013611","title":"Inez","description":"Two narratives twine through this superb novel: one introduces Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great passion,  Inez Prada, a red-haired Mexican diva; the other is a mysterious telling of the first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. Berlioz's music for \u003cem\u003eThe Damnation of Faust\u003c\/em\u003e brings Gabriel and Inez together, while the emerging love of neh-el and ah-nel--the original lovers--echoes the Faustian pact of love and death. Linking these narratives is a beautiful crystal seal that belongs to Atlan-Ferrara, its meaning an enigma that obsesses him. And like the light refracted through the seal, these stories begin in prehistory and spiral out into infinity. \u003cbr\u003e\tIn \u003cem\u003eInez\u003c\/em\u003e, we find Carlos Fuentes at the height of his magical and realist powers. This profound and beautiful work confirms his standing as one of the world's pre-eminent novelist.\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eINEZ\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is language made astonishingly new.\"-- \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eInez\u003c\/em\u003e is rife with lurid myth, with philosophy, with anger, with metaphor, with a mixing of the fantastic and the quotidian. . . . It offers proof of Fuentes' still hungry and inventive mind.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fuentes is masterful. . . . The effect is a grand, passionate, poetically written book that plays out on the page much as the opera it centers on would play out on the stage.\"-- \u003cem\u003eOrlando Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperVia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889864536293,"sku":"NP9780156013611","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780156013611.jpg?v=1730232070","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/inez-isbn-9780156013611","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}