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Informationen zum Autor Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller, Deep Down Dark , as well as The Barbarian Nurseries , Translation Nation , and The Tattooed Soldier . Héctor is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He's written for The New Yorker , The Los Angeles Times and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories , L.A. Noir , Zyzzyva , and Slate . The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family. Klappentext Winner of the California Book Award for Fiction A Los Angeles Times Bestseller Best Book of the Year Lists The New York Times Book Review . Los Angeles Times San Francisco Chronicle . The Boston Globe Scott and Maureen Torres-Thompson have always relied on others to run their Orange County home. But when bad investments crater their bank account, it all comes down to Araceli: their somewhat prickly Mexican maid. One night, an argument between the couple turns physical, and a misunderstanding leaves the children in Araceli's care. Their parents unreachable, she takes them to central Los Angeles in the hopes of finding Scott's estranged Mexican father---an earnest quest that soon becomes a colossal misadventure, with consequences that ripple through every strata of the sprawling city. Héctor Tobar's The Barbarian Nurseries is a masterful tale of contemporary Los Angeles, a novel as alive as the city itself.
