Aura Xilonen

The Gringo Champion

“Exuberant . . . [Xilonen’s] cross-cultural background has clearly given her insight into the sometimes surreal experience of being outside one’s own culture.” —The Dallas Morning News
Winner of the Mauricio Achar Prize
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, an adolescence lived with a sense of having nothing to lose. In his new home, he finds a job at a bookstore. 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.
The award-winning debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen, The Gringo Champion is a thrillingly inventive story about crossing borders that the Los Angeles Review of Books called “one of the must-read books of 2017.”
323 afgedrukte pagina’s
Oorspronkelijke uitgave
2017
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2017
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    Es un libro hermoso, lleno de aventuras y reflexiones de un niño migrante.

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  • Yatzel Roldánciteerde uit5 jaar geleden
    Thanks to Double-U’s article, which had been picked up by several local outlets, including the Chronica News and the Daily News Open, some Latinos were expecting to see “the descendent of Montezuma, the Quetzalcoatl of the Sumerians, the Inca of the Babylonians, the Aztec Hercules,” and any other description that occurred to that crazy broad as she was writing.
  • Yatzel Roldánciteerde uit5 jaar geleden
    I saw myself as being in exile from myself. And I started to write, I don’t know why—to try to get Aireen to forgive me or so that I could gradually come to understand myself.
  • Yatzel Roldánciteerde uit5 jaar geleden
    “But that’s not the same as having a paper copy that I can read in bed without having to plug it in.”

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