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Publisher: Penguin Books

Author: T. C. Boyle

ISBN: 9780140238280

Fiction

The Tortilla Curtain by
T. C. Boyle

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$ 450.00 mxn

The Tortilla Curtain by

T. C. Boyle

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"A masterpiece of contemporary social satire."

The Wall Street Journal

Summary

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Undocumented immigrants Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a dramatic comedy of error and prejudice.

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