Terra Nostra

Fuentes, Carlos, Terra Nostra, Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Inc., 1976.

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Terra Nostra is a 1975 novel by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. The narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for "Our earth". The novel received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 1976 and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1977.