Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 322 pages; 19 cm

Summary

1. "A surreal debut novel set on the Texas-Mexico border, blending magical realism, sci-fi, and political parable to tell the story of an everyday man's tumble into a bizarre and sinister criminal underworld. A parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might be erected between the United States and Mexico, narcotics are legal and there's a new contraband on the market: filtered animals--species of animals brought back from extinction to amuse the very wealthy. Esteban Bellacosa has lived in the border town of MacArthur long enough to know to keep quiet and avoid the dangerous syndicates who make their money through trafficking. But his simple life gets complicated after a swashbuckling journalist invites him to an underground dinner at which filtered animals are served. Bellacosa soon finds himself in the middle of an increasingly perilous and surreal journey, in the course of which he encounters legends of the long-disappeared Aranaña Indian tribe and their object of worship: the mysterious Trufflepig, said to possess strange powers. Written with infectious verve, bold imagination, and oddball humor, Fernando A. Flores's Tears of the Trufflepig is an absurdist take on life along the border, an ode to the myths of Mexican culture, and an introduction to a staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction."--

Subject

1. Extinct animals
2. Rich people
3. Mexico
4. Journalists
5. Texas
6. Drug traffic > Texas > Fiction
7. Detective and mystery fiction
8. Organized crime > Texas > Fiction
9. Magic realist fiction
10. Science fiction
11. Texas, South > Fiction
12. Investigative reporting > Fiction
13. Multiverse
14. Fantasy fiction

Genre/Form

1. Science fiction.
2. Magic realist fiction.
3. Fantasy fiction.
4. Detective and mystery fiction.

Call number

1. JFC 19-555

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Flores, Fernando A., 1982- author.

Title

1. Tears of the trufflepig / Fernando A. Flores.

Publisher

1. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

LCCN

1. 2018044001

ISBN

1. 9780374538330 (hardback)
2. 0374538336 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JFC 19-555