FUENTES, CARLOS (TRANSLATED BY SUZANNE JILL LEVINE) — Holy Place

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, 1978. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0525475281. Trade PB. This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have several tiny spots of ground-in dirt. There is some bumping ane nicking to the top edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a small green marker spot on the bottom edge of the text block. "Carlos Fuentes has been called "the Balzac of Mexico". Fuentes himself cited Miguel de Cervantes, William Faulkner and Balzac as the most important writers to him. He also named Latin American writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Juan Carlos Onetti, Miguel Angel Asturias and Jorge Luis Borges. European modernists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust has also been cited as important influences on his writing, with Fuentes applying the influence from them on his main theme; Mexican history and identity. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .