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| Material Type: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jorge Franco Ramos; Katherine Silver |
| ISBN: | 0312425961 9780312425968 |
| OCLC Number: | 171547455 |
| Notes: | "First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux." -- T.p. verso. "Originally published in 2002 by Grupo Editorial Random House Mondadori, S.L., Barcelona, as Paraíso travel" -- T.p. verso. |
| Description: | 228 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Paraíso travel., Paradise travel : |
| Responsibility: | Jorge Franco ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. |
Abstract:
A tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrant. This book recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, who agrees to accompany the beautiful, ambitious woman he loves to New York. On their first night in Queens, Marlon and Reina lose each other, and Marlon is left alone in a world larger, colder, and more bewildering than he had ever imagined could exist. A leader of the gritty-realist movement known as McOndo, Franco evokes the follies and pains of unrequited love at the same time that he explores deeper inequalities between North and South America.--From publisher description.
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