Aura

Synopsis of Aura

«Aura» is the short novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (61 pages, in Spanish).

Felipe Montero, a young historian, accepts an advertisement to organize the memoirs of a deceased general. In the general's widow's house he meets Aura, a mysterious niece with green eyes who fascinates him; he soon discovers that the relationship between the old woman and the young woman hides something unsettling, in an atmosphere of desire and blurred reality.

Aura was originally published in 1962 and this edition belongs to the Alianza Cien collection.

For readers of Latin American literature, magical realism and short gothic tales.