Distant Relations

Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México

Distant Relations begins in the elegant Automobile Club de France, as an elderly Count tells a rambling story to a much younger friend –but the book doesn’t remain there in the café, nor even in France. Instead, as the Count speaks, the novel moves across time and space, from Latin America to Europe, from generation to generation. We hear of Hugo, a noted Mexican archeologist, and his young son, Victor, who were once the Count’s houseguests. He tells of their time in France, of their complicated pasts and their uncertain relationships. This is a story of lost memories and failed promises, a story about the past’s unyielding influence on the present. Distant Relations is an ambitious novel whose tale of confused familial relationships explodes into one about the conflict between the Old World and the New.

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