Burnt Water

  Author’s Note © 1980 by Carlos Fuentes

  All rights reserved

  Some of these stories were originally published in Spanish in Cantar de ciegos, copyright © 1964 by Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, S.A.; and in Chac Mool y otros cuentos, copyright © 1973 by Carlos Fuentes and Salvat Editores, S.A.—Alianza Editorial, S.A.

  First published in hardcover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1980

  First published in paperback, 1986

  Fifth printing, 1993

  “These Were Palaces” and “The Mandarin” first appeared in English in Antaeus, “The Doll Queen” in TriQuarterly, and “The Old Morality” in Playboy

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Fuentes, Carlos.

  Burnt water.

  Contents: Chac-Mool.—In a Flemish garden.—Mother’s Day.—[etc]

  I. Title.

  PZ4.F952Bu [PQ7297.F793] 863 80-19148

  eISBN 9781466840058

  First eBook edition: February 2013

  * Filiberto does not say in what language he communicated with the Chac-Mool.