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Héctor Tobar

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born

in Los Angeles, The United States

January 01, 1963

gender

male

website

http://www.hectortobar.com

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Literature & Fiction

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Héctor Tobar, now a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of Translation Nation and The Tattooed Soldier. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of the city of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.

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Héctor Tobar's Books

Average rating: 3.64 · 1,614 ratings · 345 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Barbarian Nurseries 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,255 ratings — published 2011 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tattooed Soldier 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'estate dei barbari 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I am in a two-stoplight town in the Alabama hill country, in the heart of the Bible Belt and Crimson Tide football mania, listening to an old-fashioned, heated argument between Cubans like the ones I've heard in Little Havana in Miami, but the moment very quickly loses its sense of strangeness and cultural dissonance. This is what America is like now-- North America, I mean, the United States. The craziness of cubanos and mexicanos and guatemaltecos can find you just about anywhere”
― Héctor Tobar, Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States

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