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The Tattooed Soldier - by Héctor Tobar (Paperback)

The Tattooed Soldier - by  Héctor Tobar (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A Guatemalan refugee whose family was killed by a death squad spots one of the killers playing chess in a park in Los Angeles and plots revenge. The denouement comes during one of the city's riots.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a sinister tattoo--yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the sign of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. <p/>This chance encounter between Antonio and his family's killer ignites a psychological showdown between these two men. Each will discover that the war in Central America has migrated with them as they are engulfed by the quemazones--the great burning of the Los Angeles riots. A tragic tale of loss and destiny in the underbelly of an American city, <i>The Tattooed Soldier</i> is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Héctor Tobar's mesmerizing exploration of violence and the marks it leaves upon us.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Tobar succeeds in bringing into focus both the civil turmoil that racks Guatemala and the inner turmoil that can consume people anywhere." --<i>People</i> <p/>"Suspenseful...Tobar has a fine storyteller's instinct and moves his characters towards the climax with the skill of a chess master." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"[<i>The Tattooed Soldier</i>] casts a subtle light on the Third World terror which lies behind the faces of people on the pavements and in the parks of Los Angeles....Dazzling." --<i>Thomas Keneally</i> <p/>"Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature--an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. <i>The Tattooed Soldier</i> is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge." --<i>Stuart Dybek</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of <i>The Barbarian Nurseries</i>, a<i> New York Times Book Review </i>Notable Book, <i> </i><i>Translation Nation, </i> and<i> Deep Down Dark, </i>now the major motion picture <i>The 33. </i>The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of the city of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.

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