"Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa, his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami." "Mario Alvarez's dream of emigration takes a tragicomic twist on the rough streets of La Paz, Bolivia, as he embarks on a series of Kafkaesque adventures, crossing paths with a colorful cast of hustlers, social outcasts, and crooked politicians - and initiates a romance with a straight-shooting prostitute named Blanca. Spurred on by his detective fantasies and his own tribulations, he hatches a plan to rob a wealthy gold dealer, a decision that draws him into a web of high-society corruption but also brings him closer than ever to obtaining his ticket to paradise."--Jacket.
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
American visa.
عنوان قراردادی
عنوان قراردادي
American visa.
زبان(وقتي جزئي از عنوان قراردادي باشد)
English
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Bolivians-- United States, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Fathers and sons, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Teachers-- Bolivia, Fiction.
موضوع مستند نشده
Bolivians.
موضوع مستند نشده
Fathers and sons.
موضوع مستند نشده
Teachers.
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Bolivia.
موضوع مستند نشده
United States.
بدون عنوان
7
بدون عنوان
7
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
863/
.
64
ويراست
22
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PQ7820
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R37
نشانه اثر
A4413
2007
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )