Paradise Travel - Hardcover

Franco, Jorge; Silver, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374229775 ISBN 13: 9780374229771

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

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Book by Franco Jorge

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Reseña del editor

From one of Colombia’s leading novelists, a tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrant
Paradise Travel recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, who agrees to accompany the beautiful, ambitious woman he loves to New York. On their first night in Queens, Marlon and Reina lose each other, thus initiating Marlon’s descent into the underbelly of our country.
A leader of the gritty-realist movement known as McOndo, Jorge Franco evokes the follies and pains of unrequited love at the same time that he explores deeper inequalities between North and South America. Moving between lower-middle-class Colombia and immigrant New York (specifically, the Jackson Heights neighborhood seen recently in the movie Maria Full of Grace), Paradise Travel is an exciting work from a rising star, celebrated by Gabriel García Márquez as “one of those to whom I should like to pass the torch” of Colombian fiction.
Praise for Rosario Tijeras:
“Latin America’s McOndo literary movement drags the butterflies of magical realism into Burger King. With Jorge Franco’s narco-saga Rosario Tijeras, it may have found its first masterpiece.” —Rachel Aviv, Salon

Biografía del autor

Jorge Franco was born in Medellín, Colombia. His books include Rosario Tijeras, Moldito Amor, and Mala Noche.

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• Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374229775
• ISBN 13: 9780374229771
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228