by T. Coraghessan Boyle · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140238280
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«The Tortilla Curtain» is the satirical novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, published by Penguin Books in paperback (355 pages, in English).
In Topanga Canyon, two couples collide: Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, Los Angeles liberals, and Candido and América Rincón, Mexican immigrants living in a camp by the ravine. After an accident between Candido and Delaney, their opposing worlds cross in a tragicomedy about immigration and the American dream.
The novel won the Prix Médicis étranger. This edition, published in 1996, includes a reading guide.
Suitable for book clubs and readers interested in social satire and contemporary fiction.
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.
