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The Tortilla Curtain

Paperback • 1996 • English

The Tortilla Curtain

By T.C. Boyle

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About the book

T.C. Boyle’s “irresistible” (Entertainment Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream   “A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” —The Wall Street Journal WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER 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 ...Show more

Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration
Migration, immigration and emigration

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ISBN

9780140238280

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

The Tortilla Curtain

Format

Paperback

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