Original title Cambio de piel Language Spanish Pages 442 (first edition) Originally published 1967 Genre Romance novel OCLC 349483 | Translator Sam Hileman Media type Print Dewey Decimal 863 Country Mexico | |
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A Change of Skin is a love story written by Carlos Fuentes about a Mexican writer, and his American Jewish wife.
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Plot
This is the story about a frustrated Mexican writer named Javier, and his American Jewish wife, Elizabeth. The couple is making their way from Mexico City to Veracruz for a vacation. A man named Franz (a Czechoslovakian who helped construct the Nazi concentration camp, Theresienstadt and thereafter fled to Mexico) is with them, along with his young Mexican mistress, Isabel.
Once the two couples have left Mexico, they visit the pre-Columbian ruins at Xochicalco and then the pyramids at Cholula. Their car is sabotaged, forcing them to spend the night in Cholula. There they are joined by the ubiquitous Narrator, who is also en route to Cholula, just to complicate matters even more.