by T. Coraghessan Boyle · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140261424
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«The Tortilla Curtain» is the novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, published by Penguin in paperback (368 pages, in English).
In southern California, the life of an affluent Los Angeles couple, Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, crosses with that of Cándido and América Rincón, undocumented Mexican immigrants, following a chance accident. The work portrays class inequality, racism, and the contradictions of the American dream.
Winner of the Prix Médicis étranger in 1997 and the Audie Award in the category of narration by the author (2007).
For readers interested in contemporary social fiction and in stories about immigration and inequality in the United States.
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published thirty one novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York.
