George's Reviews > Inez

3.5 stars. A short engaging novel that briefly follows the lives of Gabriel Allan-Ferrara, a French symphony conductor, and Inez Prada, a Mexican diva. They first meet when Inez, a confident young teenager, disrupts Gabriel’s preparations for a London concert appearance. Over the years they meet infrequently, initially as two people in love, mostly when they are performing together on the concert stage. Gabriel is thirteen years older than Inez. Gabriel remembers his lost brother…due to the horrors of the Holocaust.

An enjoyable read that feels a little incomplete. Readers new to Fuentes should begin with his deservedly famous novels, ‘The Old Gringo’ or ‘The Death of Artemio Cruz’.

This book was first published in 2003.