T.C. Boyle’s tragicomic, award-winning novel about assimilation, immigration, and the price of the American dream “A masterpiece of contemporary social satire.” —The Wall Street Journal Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican immigrants Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
- Ungekürzte Ausgabe des sozialkritischen Romans von T.C. Boyle (deutsch "América") von 1995, aufbereitet als Englisch-Lektüre mit Zeilennummerierung, Vokabelhilfen und Kurzbiografie zum Autor für Sprachniveau C1.
The Tortilla Curtain
... ultimately explai[n] the overall urban condition, including spatial structure, crime, poverty, and racism” (Dear, “Los Angeles” 56), has been replaced by the postmodern idea of a “global, corporatedominated connectivity” (ibid.
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The Tortilla Curtain: Teacher's guide
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