While Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher enjoy a wealthy lifestyle in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Cándido and América Rincón are fighting to stay alive as illegal Mexican migrants. A car accident brings their two worlds colliding together, and from then on the reader sees how these two different lifestyles intersect and interact with each other.
The Tortilla Curtain is one of the most important social novels to have come out of the USA in the last twenty years.

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Personen: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Schlagwörter: Menschenrechte Mensch Migration Amerika Gedichte Mexiko

Interessenkreis: Englisch Englischsprachig Roman Menschenrechte Soziologie