The Long Night of White Chickens

The Long Night of White Chickens

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Published by Faber & Faber, 1993, softcover, condition: as new.

This is a novel born of two worlds. Set in Guatemala in the 1980s, during the military regime's tyranny, it is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocratic Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with an orphan sent to live with the family as a maid.

FRANCISCO GOLDMAN is the author of three novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Ordinary Seaman, a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Divine Husband. Goldman is also the author of the non-fiction book, The Art of Political Murder: Who killed the Bishop?, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Chicago TribuneThe Washington PostThe San Francisco Chronicle, and The Economist. Goldman has been a contributing editor for Harpers magazine, and his fiction, journalism and essays have appeared in publications such as The New YorkerThe New York Review of BooksEsquire and The New York Times Magazine. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation grant and the T. R. Fyvel Freedom of Expression Book Award, and was a fellow at the American Academy of Berlin and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He currently directs the Premio Aura Estrada/Aura Estrada Prize (www.premioauraestrada.com). Goldman divides his time between Brooklyn and Mexico City.

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