Xilonen Aura - The Gringo Champion - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Million Dollar Baby meets The Brief Life of Oscar Wao Liborio has to leave Mexico a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo like so many others to reach the promised land. And in a barrio like any other in some gringo city this illegal immigrant tells his story. As Liborio narrates his memories we discover a childhood scarred by malnutrition and abandonment a youth during which he has nothing to lose. In his new home he finds a job at a bookstore where of all places he begins to doubt the usefulness of words. He falls in love with a woman so intensely that his fantasies of her verge on obsession. And finally he finds himself on a path that just might save him: he becomes a boxer. Liborio's story is constructed in a dazzling language that reflects the particular culture of border towns and expresses both resistance and fascination. This is a migrants story of deracination loneliness fear and finally love a thoroughly contemporary take on the picaresque novel told in sparkling innovative prose.
Title: The Gringo Champion
Author(s): Xilonen Aura
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609453657
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2017
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction