The Empanada Brotherhood
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: October 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780811860529
Subjects: Modern fiction; American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / General
Description: "It's Greenwich Village in the 1960s, where expatriates, artists, and colorful bums meet to exchange ideas and have a good time in New York." "A tiny stand selling empanadas near the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets is the center of the world for the shy narrator, an aspiring writer who has just graduated from college. At the stand he falls ill with a crowd of kooky outcasts from Argentina who introduce him to their tragedies, friendships, melodramatic dreams - and women, particularly a young flamenco dancer from Buenos Aires. Charming, insightful, and rewarding, this deceptively simple novel is a tale told by a master. It is a wise coming-of-age story, full of joy and touched by heartbreak, that captures a special time and place with extraordinary empathy and humor."--Jacket.