The Good Conscience
New York: The Noonday Press, 1998. Soft cover. 12mo. Fine. Item #008824
Soft cover. 148 pp. Fine. The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes' second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's world and the idealism of his youth and Catholic education. Jaime's struggle to emerge as a man with a "good conscience" forms the theme of the book: can a rebel correct the evils of an established system and at the same time retain the integrity of his principles?
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