Burnt Water (29 page)

BOOKS BY CARLOS FUENTES

Where the Air Is Clear

The Good Conscience

Aura

The Death of Artemio Cruz

A Change of Skin

Terra Nostra

The Hydra Head

Burnt Water

Distant Relations

The Old Gringo

Myself with Others

Christopher Unborn

Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins

The Campaign

Translation copyright © 1969, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

Author's Note © 1980 by Carlos Fuentes

All rights reserved

Some of these stories were originally published in Spanish in
Cantar de ciegos,
copyright © 1964 by Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, S.A.; and in
Chac Mool y otros cuentos,
copyright © 1973 by Carlos Fuentes and Salvat Editores, S.A.—Alianza Editorial, S.A.

First published in hardcover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1980

First published in paperback, 1986

Fifth printing, 1993

“These Were Palaces” and “The Mandarin” first appeared in English in
Antaeus,
“The Doll Queen” in
TriQuarterly,
and “The Old Morality” in
Playboy

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fuentes, Carlos.

Burnt water.

Contents: Chac-Mool.—In a Flemish garden.—Mother's Day.—[etc]

I. Title.

PZ4.F952Bu    [PQ7297.F793]    863    80-19148

eISBN 9781466840058

First eBook edition: February 2013

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 Filiberto does not say in what language he communicated with the Chac-Mool.