Cambio de piel

Synopsis of Cambio de piel

«Cambio de piel» is the novel by Carlos Fuentes, published by Planeta Pub Corp in paperback (516 pages, in Spanish).

Four characters travel through Mexico during Holy Week towards Veracruz: a German with a Nazi past, his Mexican lover, and an American couple. Their destinies converge at the pyramid of Cholula. Fuentes blends the conflicts of two stagnant couples with the history of Mexico, from the conquest to the present, in an experimental style with multiple voices.

The novel, originally published in 1967, received the Biblioteca Breve Prize for that year.

For readers of contemporary fiction and twentieth-century Latin American literature, as well as followers of Carlos Fuentes's work.