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Carlos Fuentes

Christopher Unborn

Prologue: I Am Created

1. The Sweet Fatherland

1. The Sweet Fatherland

2. Fatherland, Your Mutilated Territories

3. Take a break

4. Mother and Doctor of All Mexicans

5. On Streets like Mirrors

6. And where was I?

2. The Holy Family

1. Later my father and mother emerge from the sea

2. My father bade farewell to the house of his childhood

3. And so, when his parents died

4. “Don’t go yet, Mommy

5. What Will My Baby Breathe When He’s Born?

6. Fatherland, Your Surface Is Pure Corn

3. It’s a Wonderful Life

1. My circumstance consists of certainties and uncertainties

2. At any hour of the day

3. Angel put up with everything

4. Your Breath the Blue of Incense

5. Fatherland: Always Remain the Same, Faithful to Your Own Reflection

6. In these annals of a wonderful life prior to my conception

7. Angel and his new buddy the fat boy

8. But before we get to the New Year’s party

9. Things didn’t just happen all by themselves

10. Let’s see now

4. Festive Intermezzo

1. I Don’t Want to Serve Anymore

2. I declare that my mother’s black eyes are a beach

3. Behind Deng Chopin he emerged

4. And that first dawn of the New Year

5. Well now, we were saying that sexual cells enter the sea

6. This is the novel I am imagining inside my mother’s egg

7. Gingerich returned to the Sightseer on foot

8. At 9 a.m. on Monday, January 6, 1992

9. The coyotes run along all the beaches

5. Christopher in Limbo

1. Your House Is Still So Very Big

2. There are two movements, my mother says

3. While these portentous events were transpiring here inside

4. All Citizens Have the Right to Information

5. And so it was that at midday Don Homero Fagoaga

6. Curiously enough, the first things we feel

7. Don Fernando paused triumphantly

8. What? What, indeed?

9. Uncle Fernando Benítez, a Catholic in his youth

10. As rubicund as a rose

6. Columbus’s Egg

1. Potemkin City

2. Taking Wing with the Crippled Devil

3. Time

4. The Devil’s Wells

5. Ballad of the Cruellest Month

6. Hollow-Eyed and Made Up

7. You Live Day to Day, Miracle to Miracle, a Lottery Life

8. They decided to look for jobs

9. My father needs a compass

10. More Rumors Than Pennies in a Piggy Bank

11. I’ll Believe in You as Long as a Mexican Girl

7. Accidents of the Tribe

1. The Diary of a Writer

2. Like a ghost

3. “Life,” Samuel Butler once wrote

4. Emotion clouded my father’s eyes

5. Reader: Think about us

6. What would my father remember

7. The current Servilia served tea

8. The reader ought to know

9. As soon as they found out

10. Only Egg stayed behind

11. Fatherland, Always Be Faithful to Yourself

12. When the earth calmed down

13. Dear Reader, you may remember

14. Concha Toro’s life

8. No Man’s Fatherland

1. Thunderclap

2. The Ayatollah Matamoros’s first order

3. The fact is they didn’t have faces

4. Without asking permission

5. Matamoros Moreno rehearsed his every gesture

6. Colonel Inclán raised his fingers

7. This … is what Minister Federico Robles Chacón said

8. On the night of the Ayatollah

9. The din of the loudspeakers

10. Like the plague entering the village

11. No sooner had Grandfather Rigoberto Palomar

12. Inside the border checkpoint

13. It turns out that I, Christopher

14. I’m an honest guy

15. “I’m hungry!” Colasa Sánchez shouted

16. Why Are We in Veracruz?

17. The Other Bank of the River

9. The Discovery of America

1. Your Truth of Blessed Bread

2. I Love You Not As a Myth

3. Fatherland, unto You I Give the Key of Your Good Fortune

4. Land!

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