Distant Relations - Tapa dura

The Comte de Branly narrates a story about the relationships in a family named Heredia, focusing on two pairs of fathers and sons and highlighting the mutual, corrupting influences at work between the Old World and the New

Carlos Fuentes, born in Panama in 1928, has taught at Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and many other universities. He is the author of more than a dozen novels--including, most recently, Inez (2002) and The Years with Laura Díaz (2000)--as well as several works of nonfiction. In 1987, he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor given to a Spanish-language writer. Mr. Fuentes divides his time between Mexico City and London, and lectures frequently in the United States.