{"product_id":"9780374706425","title":"The Years with Laura Díaz: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Years With Laura Diaz \u003c\/i\u003eis Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades.  Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City--tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and that is a significant element in Fuentes's fictional world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes's first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Carlos Fuentes's richly woven narrative tapestry-filled with a multitude of dramatic scenes both witty, amusing, and heartbreaking-shows us this wonderful creature as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty  prevails despite her losing a son and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's repressive, corrupt regimes.  In the end, Laura Diaz herself dies, after a life filled with tragedy and loss, but she is a happy woman, for she has borne witness to, and helped to affect, the course of history and has vindicated the aims and intentions of the highest art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103979749616,"sku":"9780374706425","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374706425_p0.jpg?v=1769916961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374706425","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}