| The Tattooed Soldier Contributor(s): Tobar, Héctor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250055857 ISBN-13: 9781250055859 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Urban |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.64 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a sinister tattoo--yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the sign of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. This chance encounter between Antonio and his family's killer ignites a psychological showdown between these two men. Each will discover that the war in Central America has migrated with them as they are engulfed by the quemazones--the great burning of the Los Angeles riots. A tragic tale of loss and destiny in the underbelly of an American city, The Tattooed Soldier is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter H ctor Tobar's mesmerizing exploration of violence and the marks it leaves upon us. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tobar, Hector: - Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller, Deep Down Dark, as well as The Barbarian Nurseries, Translation Nation, and The Tattooed Soldier. Héctor is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He's written for The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, L.A. Noir, Zyzzyva, and Slate. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family. |