num_pages: 355
description: When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning his state park into a ghetto, and a boiling pot of racism and prejudice threatens to spill over.
language: English
title: The Tortilla Curtain
titlecomplete: The Tortilla Curtain
characters: America Rincon, Delany Mossbacher, Candido Rincon
genres: Fiction, American, Book Club, School, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 31910
places: California, Los Angeles, California
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Audie Award
category: Narration by the Author or Authors, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger