Gringa, The - Hardcover

Altschul, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612198228 ISBN 13: 9781612198224

Publisher: Melville House Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

It is 1998 and Leonora Gelb, a recent Stanford grad, has a world of opportunity open before her. But she is also an activist and a radical thinker, as mobilized as she is studious. Traveling to Peru to work for an NGO, she falls into the orbit of a Marxist guerrilla group, turning the cushy world Gelb has known on its head. After a bloody government raid, Gelb is sentenced to life in a Peruvian prison, a story that breaks headlines back home even as American media outlets are at odds to explain how she has ended up there. Ten years later, the task of finding the truth falls to Andres - an American expat on a journalistic assignment to discover the real Leonora. Activist or terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naive puppet? In this gripping story of guerrilla warfare and self-discovery, Altschul crafts a masterful tale of the dangerous consequences of American altruism.

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About the Author

Andrew Altschul is the author of the novels Lady Lazarus and Deus Ex Machina. His work has appeared in Esquire, McSweeney&;s, Ploughshares, Best New American Voices, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he was the founding books editor at The Rumpus and is a Contributing Editor at Zyzzyva. He teaches at Colorado State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1612198228
• ISBN 13: 9781612198224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512