Terra Nostra - Opening

I THE OLD
WORLD

FLESH, SPHERES, GRAY EYES
BESIDE THE SEINE

Incredible, the first animal that dreamed of another animal. Monstrous the first vertebrate that succeeded in standing on two feet and thus spread terror among the beasts still normally and happily crawling close to the ground through the slime of creation. Astounding the first telephone call, the first boiling water, the first song, the first loincloth.

TERRA
NOSTRA

CARLOS
FUENTES

TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY
MARGARET SAYERS PEDEN
FARRAR.STRAUS.GIROUX
NEW YORK

FOR SYLVIA

Translation copyright &copy 1976 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
Originally published in Spanish, copyright &copy 1975 by
Editorial Joaquin Mortiz, S.A., Mexico
First printing, 1976
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Published simultaneously in Canada by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Toronto
Designed bby Cynthia Krupat