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Tears of the trufflepig
- Title
- Tears of the trufflepig / Fernando A. Flores.
- Author
- Flores, Fernando A., 1982-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 19-555 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 322 pages; 19 cm
- Summary
- "A surreal debut novel set on the Texas-Mexico border, blending magical realism, sci-fi, and political parable to tell the story of an everyday man's tumble into a bizarre and sinister criminal underworld. A parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might be erected between the United States and Mexico, narcotics are legal and there's a new contraband on the market: filtered animals--species of animals brought back from extinction to amuse the very wealthy. Esteban Bellacosa has lived in the border town of MacArthur long enough to know to keep quiet and avoid the dangerous syndicates who make their money through trafficking. But his simple life gets complicated after a swashbuckling journalist invites him to an underground dinner at which filtered animals are served. Bellacosa soon finds himself in the middle of an increasingly perilous and surreal journey, in the course of which he encounters legends of the long-disappeared Aranaña Indian tribe and their object of worship: the mysterious Trufflepig, said to possess strange powers. Written with infectious verve, bold imagination, and oddball humor, Fernando A. Flores's Tears of the Trufflepig is an absurdist take on life along the border, an ode to the myths of Mexican culture, and an introduction to a staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction."--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Science fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFC 19-555
- ISBN
- 9780374538330
- 0374538336
- LCCN
- 2018044001
- OCLC
- 1052462781
- Author
- Flores, Fernando A., 1982- author.
- Title
- Tears of the trufflepig / Fernando A. Flores.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 19-555