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- Author: Héctor Tobar
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published: September 2011
- ISBN-10: 0374108994
- ISBN-13: 9780374108991
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2011
- Subject: FICTION-GENERAL
The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel
By Héctor Tobar
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After the husband and wife that she works for disappear, live-in maid Araceli takes their two boys on a journey through sprawling Los Angeles to locate their grandfather. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Translation Nation. 75,000 first printing.
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Author of Translation Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tobar translates his ideas into a first novel. When the recession hits, Araceli, a live-in maid in the Pacific Coast Torres-Thompson household, finds herself responsible for everything when the other two Mexican servants are let go—including the family's two children. Then she wakes up to discover that the parents have vanished. Billed as a panoramic social novel of Los Angeles, this strikes me as a panoramic social novel of America.
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