American Visa A Novel
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Nein
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2019
Verlag
Akashic BooksSeitenzahl
265 (Printausgabe)
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1312 KB
Übersetzt von
Adrian Althoff
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781617750571
"
American Visais beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler... a smart, exotic crime fiction offering." -George Pelecanos, award-winning author/producer of
The Wire
Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa, his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami.
Mario Alvarez's dream of emigration takes a tragicomic twist on the rough streets of La Paz, Bolivia's seat of government. Alvarez embarks on a series of Kafkaesque adventures, crossing paths with a colorful cast of hustlers, social outcasts, and crooked politicians-and initiating a romance with a straight-shooting prostitute named Blanca. Spurred on by his detective fantasies and his own tribulations, he hatches a plan to rob a wealthy gold dealer, a decision that draws him into a web of high-society corruption but also brings him closer than ever to obtaining his ticket to paradise.
"A stunning literary achievement. It is insightful and poignant, a book every thoughtful American should read, and once read, read again." -William Heffernan, international bestselling author of
The Corsican
"This is a thriller with a social conscience, a contemporary noir with lots of humor and flair. The streets of La Paz have never looked so alive. This is one of the best Latin American novels of the last fifteen years." -Edmundo Paz-Soldán, author of
Turing's Delirium
American Visais beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler... a smart, exotic crime fiction offering." -George Pelecanos, award-winning author/producer of
The Wire
Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa, his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami.
Mario Alvarez's dream of emigration takes a tragicomic twist on the rough streets of La Paz, Bolivia's seat of government. Alvarez embarks on a series of Kafkaesque adventures, crossing paths with a colorful cast of hustlers, social outcasts, and crooked politicians-and initiating a romance with a straight-shooting prostitute named Blanca. Spurred on by his detective fantasies and his own tribulations, he hatches a plan to rob a wealthy gold dealer, a decision that draws him into a web of high-society corruption but also brings him closer than ever to obtaining his ticket to paradise.
"A stunning literary achievement. It is insightful and poignant, a book every thoughtful American should read, and once read, read again." -William Heffernan, international bestselling author of
The Corsican
"This is a thriller with a social conscience, a contemporary noir with lots of humor and flair. The streets of La Paz have never looked so alive. This is one of the best Latin American novels of the last fifteen years." -Edmundo Paz-Soldán, author of
Turing's Delirium
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