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The barbarian nurseries

  • Héctor Tobar

3.50

2 ratings

After the husband and wife that she works for disappear, live-in maid Araceli takes their two boys on a journey through sprawling Los Angeles to locate their grandfather.

Genres

  • Women household employees
  • Fiction
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Los Angeles (Calif) - Fiction
  • Employées de maison
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Roman
  • Amerikanisches Englisch
  • Millionaires
  • Abandoned children
  • Women immigrants
  • Illegal aliens
  • Mexican Americans
  • Social classes
  • California, fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • Los angeles (calif.), fiction
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About the author

  • Héctor Tobar

    born 1963

    3.33

    3 ratings · 8 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    Ungekürzte Taschenbuchausg.

    Piper

    2014

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    Picador USA, Picador

    Sep 04, 2012

  • Edition cover

    Picador

    2021

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    1st Canadian ed.

    HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC

    2011

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Sceptre

2011

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    2011

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    BELFOND

  • Edition cover

    Hodder & Stoughton

    2012

  • Edition cover

    Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    2011

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    Harper Perennial

    2012-09-18