Carlos Fuentes

The Eagle's Throne

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The year is 2020. The Mexican President has provoked the United States by calling for the removal of US troops from Colombia and demanding higher prices for Mexico's oil. But the country's satellite communications system is controlled in Miami and suddenly Mexico is deprived of phone, fax and email. In a country where politicians never put anything in writing, letters are now the only way to communicate, leaving the private lives and true feelings of all brutally exposed. Especially regarding the hot topic of the day: Who will be the next President, the next to ascend the Eagle's Throne?As the characters struggle to identify and ally themselves to the future President, the letters fly ever faster. Who will be the victor? Handsome Nicolás Valdivia? Bald satyr Tácito de la Canal? Or the 'unsavoury' ex-President César León? There are many questions to be answered before the last letter is sent.
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366 printed pages
Publication year
2012
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Quotes

  • Dmitry Kordashas quoted8 years ago
    He’s aware that order has its limits, but that disorder is boundless.
  • Dmitry Kordashas quoted8 years ago
    the so-called capital of Latin America, Miami.
  • Dmitry Kordashas quoted8 years ago
    My friend the Secretary relies on his ascetic reputation. Butterflies don’t go near his garden. Instead, the scorpions of deceit nest under his rug and the bees of ambition buzz around his honeycomb.

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