The narrator of a recent novel by this author goes to work for the communications magnate MaxMonroy while his childhood friend JericÃ³ gets a job throwing patriotic festivals for the masses. Thatnovel, narrated by the decapitated head of JosuÃ© Nadal, is entitled Destiny and Desire. A historian isasked to compile the memoirs of General Llorente in a novella by this author written in the secondperson. In another of his novels, (*) Harriet Winslow is hired to tutor the children of the Miranda family,who have fled from the
The narrator of a recent novel by this author goes to work for the communications magnate MaxMonroy while his childhood friend JericÃ³ gets a job throwing patriotic festivals for the masses. Thatnovel, narrated by the decapitated head of JosuÃ© Nadal, is entitled Destiny and Desire. A historian isasked to compile the memoirs of General Llorente in a novella by this author written in the secondperson. In another of his novels, (*) Harriet Winslow is hired to tutor the children of the Miranda family,who have fled from the army of Tomas Arroyo. That novel imaginatively depicts Ambrose Bierce's deathin the Mexican Revolution. For 10 points, name this Mexican novelist, author of Aura, The Old Gringoand The Death of Artemio Cruz.
The narrator of a recent novel by this author goes to work for the communications magnate MaxMonroy while his childhood friend JericÃ³ gets a job throwing patriotic festivals for the masses.
 Carlos Fuentes