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The Gringo Champion
[Paperback - 2017]
aura xilonen
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Category: Fiction
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Publisher: Europa Editions Uk | ISBN: 9781609453657 | Pages: 320
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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.

About the Author

Aura Xilonen is a novelist and filmmaker. She won the 2015 Premio Mauricio Achar for her first novel, Gringo Champion, published in Mexico under a pseudonym when she was just 19.

Andrea Rosenberg translates from Spanish and Portuguese. Among her published translations are Aura Xilonen’s The Gringo Champion (Europa, 2017) and Juan Gómez Bárcena’s The Sky over Lima (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). Her work has appeared in a variety of publications.

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