The Gringo Champion |
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| Author:
| Xilonen, Aura |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60945-367-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2017 |
| Publisher: | Europa Editions, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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"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 NewsWinner of the Mauricio Achar PrizeLiborio 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...
More Description "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 NewsWinner of the Mauricio Achar PrizeLiborio 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."