Las buenas conciencias

This is the story of the spiritual journey that leads Jaime Ceballos through a labyrinth of forgotten memories up until the end of his youth when he decides where life will take him. In Las buenas conciencias, Carlos Fuentes vividly narrates Jaime’s youth in which the young man debates himself on his family’s moral values (easier to dismiss than to follow) versus his own religious impulses, good habits versus social relationships, the pain of living without his biological parents versus the happiness of discovering life, between sin and salvation.