BOOKS BY Carlos Fuentes
Where the Air Is Clear
The Good Conscience
Aura
The Death of Artemio Cruz
A Change of Skin
Terra Nostra
The Hydra Head
Burnt Water
The Old Gringo
Myself with Others
Christopher Unborn
English translation copyright © 1989 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Originally published in Spanish as Cristóbal Nonato,
copyright © 1987 by Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, D.F.
All rights reserved
Published simultaneously in Canada by Collins Publishers, Toronto
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fuentes, Carlos.
[Cristóbal Nonato. English]
Christopher unborn / Carlos Fuentes.
p. cm.
Translation of: Cristóbal Nonato.
I. Title.
PQ7297.F793C713 1989 863—dcl9
CIP
eISBN 9781466840096
First eBook edition: February 2013
1 The fortunes of President Jesús María y José Paredes can be read about in the novel, The King of Mexico; or, If You Move You Won’t Come Out in the Photo.