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and various cities in South America. He has been his country’s ambassador to France and is the author of more than ten novels, including The Eagle’s Throne, The Death of Artemio Cruz, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringo, The Years with Laura Diaz, Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone, and Inez. His nonfiction includes The Crystal Frontier and This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life. He has received many awards for his accomplishments, among them the Mexican National Award for Literature in 1984, the Cervantes Prize in 1987, and the Légion d’Honneur in 1992.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

EDITH GROSSMAN, the winner of a number of translating awards, most notably the 2006 PEN Ralph Manheim Medal, is the distinguished translator of works by major Spanishlanguage authors, including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero, and Álvaro Mutis, as well as Carlos Fuentes. Her translation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote was published to great acclaim in 2003.

Also by Carlos Fuentes

Aura

The Buried Mirror

Burnt Water

The Campaign

A Change of Skin

Christopher Unborn

Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins

The Crystal Frontier

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone

Distant Relations

The Eagle’s Throne

The Good Conscience

The Hydra Head

Inez

Myself with Others

A New Time for Mexico

The Old Gringo

The Orange Tree

Terra Nostra

This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life

Where the Air Is Clear

The Years with Laura Diaz

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The Discomfiting Brother

1The Mexican Luis G. Barreiro or the Englishman Alan Mowbray—Author’s note.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2006 by Carlos Fuentes

English translation copyright © 2008 by Edith Grossman

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

This work was originally published in Spanish as

Todas las familias felices by Alfaguara,

Mexico City, Mexico, in 2006.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Fuentes, Carlos.

[Todas las familias felices. English]

Happy families : fiction / Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Edith Grossman.

p. cm.

I. Grossman, Edith. II. Title.

PQ7297.F793T5913 2008

863’.64—dc22 2008002335

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eISBN: 978-1-58836-814-0

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