num_pages: 528
description: 2005 National Book Award Finalist for FictionA Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Novel of the YearIt is 1974 and a tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), abducts a newspaper heiress, who then takes the guerrilla name"Tania" and shocks the world by choosing to remain with her former captors. Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades--the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda--into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. These are the months of Tania's sentimental education.
language: English
title: Trance
titlecomplete: Trance
genres: Literature, American, Psychology, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race, Politics, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 187
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador