The Tortilla Curtain (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) (Penguin Ink)

by T.C. Boyle

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T.C. Boyle’s “irresistible” (Entertainment Weekly) classic bestseller, a tragicomic novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream
 
“A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” —The Wall Street Journal

WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Undocumented immigrants Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a dramatic comedy of error and prejudice.
  • ISBN10 014023828X
  • ISBN13 9780140238280
  • Publish Date 1 September 1996 (first published 26 October 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 January 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Penguin Putnam Inc