Title: Altiplano express
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2000
Description: This murder mystery follows a tragic overnight train journey in 1952 from Bolivia to Chile, presenting a moving environment at once carnivalesque and sinister. The novel explores the social tensions characteristic of Bolivian society in a way that is both accessible and highly entertaining.
Subjects: Fiction, Social conditions, History, Railroad travel, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Bolivia, fiction
Places: Bolivia
Time periods: 1938-1982
LC classification: PQ7820.R37 A8 2000