In another of his novels, Padilla acts as a stand-in for the dead son of a dying mogul.
This author wrote a short story whose narrator is presented with a porcelain figurine that looks like a young version of a girl he once knew, later discovering that she is actually now confined to a wheelchair. Asunta Jordan murders Max Monroy's son Jerico in this author's final novel, which is narrated by the severed head of Josue. Another of his novels uses the phrase "We crossed the river on horseback" many times to represent meaningful transitions of the protagonist. This author of "The Doll Queen" and Destiny and Desire used the second person present tense in a novel in which a green-eyed woman transforms into her 109-year old aunt while having sex with a man hired to write the memoirs of a dead general. In another of his novels, Padilla acts as a stand-in for the dead son of a dying mogul. For 10 points, name this Mexican author of Aura and The Death of Artemio Cruz.
This author wrote a short story whose narrator is presented with a porcelain figurine that looks like a young version of a girl he once knew, later discovering that she is actually now confined to a wheelchair.
Carlos Fuentes