| The Long Night of White Chickens Contributor(s): Goldman, Francisco (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802144608 ISBN-13: 9780802144607 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 Annotation: In 1981, a 21-year-old Guatemalan-American writer burst onto the literary scene with a string of short stories in Esquire and Playboy. Over the next five years, in response to the horrors occurring in Central America, Francisco Goldman wrote highly acclaimed journalism for Harper's Magazine. Now he returns to fiction with this bicultural novel set in Guatemala. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | City Life - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (1.40 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Long Night of White Chickens marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman's internationally acclaimed writing career. The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of two worlds: It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by a patrician Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young Guatemalan orphan sent by his grandmother to live with his family as a maid. When, years later in the 1980s, Flor is murdered in Guatemala, Roger returns to uncover the truth of her death. There he is reunited with Luis Moya, a childhood friend, and together they venture on a quest into Flor's life that will have unexpected, and unforgettable, repercussions. |