Novelas
“Exuberant . . . [Xilonen’s] cross-cultural background has clearly given her insight into the sometimes surreal experience of being outside one’s own culture.” —The Dallas Morning News
Winner of the Mauricio Achar Prize
Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach “the promised land.” And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal immigrant tells his story.
As Liborio narrates his memories we discover a childhood scarred by malnutrition and abandonment, an adolescence lived with a sense of having nothing to lose. In his new home, he finds a job at a bookstore. He falls in love with a woman so intensely that his fantasies of her verge on obsession. And, finally, he finds himself on a path that just might save him: he becomes a boxer.
The award-winning debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen, The Gringo Champion is a thrillingly inventive story about crossing borders that the Los Angeles Review of Books called “one of the must-read books of 2017.”
© 2017 Europa Editions (eBook ): 9781609453671
Fecha de lanzamiento
eBook : 17 de enero de 2017
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Novelas
“Exuberant . . . [Xilonen’s] cross-cultural background has clearly given her insight into the sometimes surreal experience of being outside one’s own culture.” —The Dallas Morning News
Winner of the Mauricio Achar Prize
Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach “the promised land.” And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal immigrant tells his story.
As Liborio narrates his memories we discover a childhood scarred by malnutrition and abandonment, an adolescence lived with a sense of having nothing to lose. In his new home, he finds a job at a bookstore. He falls in love with a woman so intensely that his fantasies of her verge on obsession. And, finally, he finds himself on a path that just might save him: he becomes a boxer.
The award-winning debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen, The Gringo Champion is a thrillingly inventive story about crossing borders that the Los Angeles Review of Books called “one of the must-read books of 2017.”
© 2017 Europa Editions (eBook ): 9781609453671
Fecha de lanzamiento
eBook : 17 de enero de 2017
Etiquetas
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