{"product_id":"9781609453657-the-gringo-champion","title":"Xilonen Aura - The Gringo Champion - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Gringo Champion\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Xilonen Aura\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Europa Editions\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781609453657\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 320 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Xilonen Aura","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51335808614705,"sku":"IN-G-9781609453657","price":15.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781609453657.jpg?v=1746960999","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781609453657-the-gringo-champion","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}