'I asked myself as I fell if it were possible to live the life of a dead woman exactly as she lived it, to discover the secret of her memory, to remember what she would remember. I saw her, I will remember her. It's Laura D az.'
From 1905 to 1978 Fuentes traces Laura D az; a life filled with a multitude of witty, heartbreaking scenes and the sounds and colours, tastes and scents of Mexico.
Laura grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, and a complicated and alluring heroine whose bravery prevails despite her losing a brother, son, and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's turbulent, often corrupt politics.
Hers is a life which has helped to affect the course of history, and it is the story of a woman who has loved and understood with unflinching honesty.
