Los años con Laura Díaz

by Carlos Fuentes

  This is a translation of Los Anos con Laura Díaz.

  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the excerpt from “Vegetation,” from Canto General, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, by Pablo Neruda, edited and translated by Jack Schmitt, copyright © 1991 Fundación Pablo Neruda, Regents of the University of California Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press.

  Published by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request.

  Text set in Walbaum MT

  First Harvest edition 2001