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About This Book:

Title: The Long Night of White Chickens

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1992
Paperback, 1993
Paperback, 1998
Prebinding, 1998

Synopsis
Goldman's first novel, winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. This is the story of Roger Graetz, a half-Guatemalan boy raised in Boston, and Flor de Mayo, the Guatemalan orphan who is the family's maid. When Flor is murdered, Roger goes on a quest to find out the truth behind her death.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        496 Pages



Industry Reviews
"[The author] has produced a remarkable first novel....A beautifully balanced mix of intensity and grace, intelligence and imagination. I admired all kinds of things about this book, not least of which was that it told a terrific story, never didactic, always rich in incident and human drama....Deserves a wide readership and lots of prizes."
"...A wonderful book: leaps through cultures, with a thousand humorous or profound insights about 'gringos and latins'; ...leaps between horror and beauty; leaps between observation and imagination. An enormous and pleasurable surprise."
"...An exceptional novel which gently forces us to acknowledge and truly listen to voices beyond our borders which have been hidden for too long."


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Long Night of White Chickens and it was written by Francisco Goldman. This edition of The Long Night of White Chickens is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is December 2010 and it has a suggested retail price of $14.95. There are 496 pages in the book and it was published by Grove Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0802144608 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780802144607. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.