Aura : A Novel

Carlos Fuentes; Lysander Kemp
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374511715
0-374-51171-3

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.