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1 online resource (260 pages) : 1 map |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
"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's seat of government. Alvarez embarks on a series of Kafkaesque adventures, crossing paths with a colorful cast of hustlers, social outcasts, and crooked politicians--and initiating 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
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Translated from the Spanish. |
| Subject |
Teachers -- Bolivia -- Fiction.
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Bolivians -- United States -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Bolivians. (OCoLC)fst00835724
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Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
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Teachers. (OCoLC)fst01144248
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Bolivia. (OCoLC)fst01205549
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Althoff, Adrian.
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| Added Title |
American visa. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Recacoechea S., Juan. American visa. English. American visa. New York : Akashic Books, ©2007 (DLC) 2006936532 (OCoLC)77541301 |
| ISBN |
9781617750571 (electronic bk.) |
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1617750573 (electronic bk.) |
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