The Tortilla Curtain - Ausgezeichnet mit dem Prix Medicis für ausländische Literatur 1997
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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2019 |
| Seiten | 368 |
| Format | 12,7 x 19,6 x 2,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 264 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1526608871 |
| EAN | 9781526608871 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52660887UA |
Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger; 'examines America's guerilla war between the haves and have-notes with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities'(Observer)
When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning his state park into a ghetto, and a boiling pot of racism and prejudice threatens to spill over.
Rezension:
This novel examines America's guerrilla war between the haves and have-nots with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities ... rock'n'roll, full of exciting, vivid American landscapes, utopian, manic Observer
