The Crystal Frontier

  A New Time for Mexico

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  19 Union Square West, New York 10003

  Copyright © 1995 by Carlos Fuentes

  Translation copyright© 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

  All rights reserved

  First published in 1995 by Aguilar, Altea Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A. de C.V., Mexico, as La frontera de cristal: Una novela en nueve cuentos

  First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, 1997

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Fuentes, Carlos.

  [Frontera de cristal. English]

  The crystal frontier: a novel in nine stories / Carlos Fuentes; translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam.—1st Farrar, Straus, and Giroux ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-374-13277-1 (cloth: alk. paper)

  I. MacAdam, Alfred J., 1941- . II. Title.

  PQ7297.F793F7613 1997

  863—dc21

  97-11230

  CIP

  eISBN 9781466839991

  First eBook edition: February 2013