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jueves, 9 de octubre de 2008

Las buenas conciencias

I recently read Las buenas conciencias by Carlos Fuentes, a book about one young guy named Jaime Ceballos who is always asking himself, why do rich people discriminate poor people ?.
It is a fascinating novel that describes how rich people use to live in Guanajuato.
The novel starts when Jaime's Grandfather arrived to Guanajuato because of the socialism in Europe, renting a spot to sell his fabrics but through the time his spot was increasing, after that Jaime's grandfather's sister become the lover of the president's secretary of the state. They had good connections with the government and high class people in order to export his fabrics to U.S. , later on Jaime's Grandmother was pregnant and had 3 male kids, one of them died in the army and the other two had to work in the family business, the older one was sort of lazy while the youngest was crafty and because of that the youngest was increasing his fortune. Jaime who is the main character was the son of the older lazy brother, but he was raised by her aunt because her mom run away.
The main characters in this book are Jaime who is a rich guy, Lorenzo a poor guy, and Jaime's grandfather.
I like the book very much because Carlos Fuentes tries to show us how do rich people used to live and how arrogant they were.
I would recommend this book for all those people that already read La region mas transparente by Carlos Fuentes because from my humble opinion and other people it is considered the second part of that book.

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