{"product_id":"american-visa-a-novel","title":"American Visa A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juan de Recacoechea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e American Visa A Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"American Visa, the best-selling novel in Bolivian history, relates the harrowing and hilarious adventures Mario Alvarez endures in his quest to get a visa so he can visit his son in Miami.\" --Boston Globe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Quite possibly Bolivia's baddest-ass book . . . Ironic that Juan de Recacoechea's protagonist spends all his time trying to get to America, when it is we who should be getting to Juan de Recacoechea.\" --Miami Sun-Post\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArmed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American visa, his best hope for escaping his painful past and reuniting with his grown son in Miami.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMario Alvarez's dream of emigration takes a tragicomic twist on the rough streets of La Paz, Bolivia's seat of government. Alvarez embarks on a series of Kafkaesque adventures, crossing paths with a colorful cast of hustlers, social outcasts, and crooked politicians--and initiating a romance with a straight-shooting prostitute named Blanca. Spurred on by his detective fantasies and his own tribulations, he hatches a plan to rob a wealthy gold dealer, a decision that draws him into a web of high-society corruption but also brings him closer than ever to obtaining his ticket to paradise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933354200\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 8 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 0.63713593718 Pounds, Width: 0.8 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Juan de Recacoechea","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801770451251,"sku":"9781933354200","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/9609963482876.jpg?v=1785979610","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/american-visa-a-novel","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}