LoginThe Tattooed Soldier
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Héctor Tobar's debut novel is a tragic tale of destiny and consequence set in downtown Los Angeles on the eve of the 1992 riots. Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee haunted by memories of his wife and child murdered at the hands of a man marked with a yellow tattoo. Not far from Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a tattoo--yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the mark of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. A chance encounter ignites a psychological showdown between these two men who discover that the war in Central America has fo
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Release date: 1 July 2000
ISBN-10 : 0140288619 | ISBN-13: 9780140288612
Release date: 1 July 2000
ISBN-10 : 0140288619 | ISBN-13: 9780140288612
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