num_pages: 320
description: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Héctor Tobar 's debut novel is a tragic tale of destiny and consequence set in downtown Los Angeles on the eve of the 1992 riots. Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee haunted by memories of his wife and child murdered at the hands of a man marked with a yellow tattoo. Not far from Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a tattoo--yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the mark of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. A chance encounter ignites a psychological showdown between these two men who discover that the war in Central America has followed them to the quemazones, the "great burning" of the Los Angeles riots.
language: English
title: The Tattooed Soldier
titlecomplete: The Tattooed Soldier
genres: School, Novels, Modern, Adult, College, Read For School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1209
places: California, Los Angeles, California
publisher: Penguin Books