num_pages: 320
description: Omar Razaghi, a twenty-eight-year-old doctoral student at the University of Kansas, has won a grant to write a biography of Jules Gund, a deceased Latin American writer. There's just one Gund's family has not given him authorization. Undeterred, Omar travels to Uruguay, unannounced, to petition the author's three executors in Gund's widow, his much younger mistress, and his brother. Omar's arrival sets in motion a series of events that upsets the precarious balance of life at Ochos Rios, the family's crumbling estate. As long-standing relationships undergo seismic shifts and force the time-stuck inhabitants of Ochos to look toward that most dreaded of the future.
language: English
title: The City of Your Final Destination
titlecomplete: The City of Your Final Destination
genres: Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Americana, LGBT, Historical Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2494
places: Kansas, Uruguay
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Plume