The tattooed soldier / Héctor Tobar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobar, Héctor, 1963-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guatemalan Americans--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.

Guatemalan Americans.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

[ch.] 1. Antonio and the sergeant

1. On Crown Hill

2. El Pulgarcito Express

3. Instant shelter

4. The source of the infection

5. Probability

[ch.] 2. Antonio and Elena

6. A zoo for the generals

7. Teodoro's hands

8. The window

9. Microbes

10. The wrestlers' brigade

[ch.] 3. Antonio and Guillermo

11. Fire escape

12. The army of painted children

13. Basic training

14. Fort Bragg

15. Department of Sanitation

16. Jaguar

17. Adventure in Beverly Hills

18. Halloween

19. Below Crown Hill.

ISBN:

0140288619

9780140288612

OCLC:

45202938