The Gringo Champion

The Gringo Champion
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781609453671
ISBN-13 : 1609453670
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Book Synopsis The Gringo Champion by : Aura Xilonen

Download or read book The Gringo Champion written by Aura Xilonen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen, The Gringo Champion is a thrillingly inventive story about crossing borders that the Los Angeles Review of Books called "one of the must-read books of 2017." Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach "the promised land." And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal immigrant tells his story. As Liborio narrates his memories we discover a childhood scarred by malnutrition and abandonment, an adolescence lived with a sense of having nothing to lose. In his new home, he finds a job at a bookstore. He falls in love with a woman so intensely that his fantasies of her verge on obsession. And, finally, he finds himself on a path that just might save him: he becomes a boxer. This is a migrant's story of deracination, loneliness, fear, and finally, love told in a sparkling, innovative prose. It's Million Dollar Baby meets The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and a story of migration and hope that is as topical as it is timeless.


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