Award Winning Books by
FELIPE ALFAU
| Novel. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, this is Alfau's hilarious and innovative epic of American immigration. Its opening line is: "The moment one learns English, complications set in." It is exactly these "complications" to which we are treated over the course of this novel, which is at once darkly humorous and strangely apocalyptic. "Alfau has created a poetic, cinematic an...
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Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Wins |
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National Book Award Wins |
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National Book Award Nominations |
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*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award
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