by T. Coraghessan Boyle · Grasset · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246517511
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«América» is the novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle published by Grasset in paperback, in French.
A journalist and his partner, settled in a California housing development, see their peaceful life disrupted when he runs over Candido, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who arrives with his wife, América, in search of the American dream. The clash of two worlds unleashes neighbourhood paranoia and a spiral of incidents that tests coexistence.
The novel won the Prix Médicis étranger in 1997 and was originally published in 1995 under the title The Tortilla Curtain.
For book clubs and readers of contemporary fiction interested in literary fiction with a social backdrop on immigration.
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published thirty one novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
