Ora
by (mexico) Carlos Fuentes (chile) Illustration By Alejandra Acosta
About This Novel
This book is a legendary novella. Felipe Montero is a 27-year-old young historian in Mexico who is fluent in French. One day, he happened to read a newspaper and got a monthly salary of 4,000 pesos through an advertisement. The job content was to help the 109-year-old Mrs. Consuelo Llorente, the widow of a general, organize the general's memoirs written in French. In the old lady's secluded house where she never saw the light of day, he fell in love with the old lady's niece, the young and beautiful Ola. A series of strange things happened after that, making the whole story shrouded in an atmosphere of mystery, darkness, and confusion. As Felipe learned more about the general's manuscript, he discovered that Aura was Consuelo's own youth copied by witchcraft, and Felipe was the general himself...
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