The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman

The Long Night of White Chickens by Francisco Goldman

Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Long Night of White Chickens marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman's internationally acclaimed writing career.

The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of two worlds: It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by a patrician Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young Guatemalan orphan sent by his grandmother to live with his family as a maid. When, years later in the 1980s, Flor is murdered in Guatemala, Roger returns to uncover the truth of her death. There he is reunited with Luis Moya, a childhood friend, and together they venture on a quest into Flor's life that will have unexpected, and unforgettable, repercussions.

FRANCISCO GOLDMAN is the author of three novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, which received the Sue Kaufman Prize for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Ordinary Seaman, which was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Divine Husband, which was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Divine Husband Goldman has worked as a contributing editor for Harper's magazine, and his fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the T.

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ISBN 13	9780802135476
ISBN 10	0802135471
Title	The Long Night of White Chickens
Author	Francisco Goldman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Avalon Travel Publishing
Year published	1998-03-23
Number of pages	450
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