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Héctor Tobar

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born

January 01, 1963 in Los Angeles, The United States

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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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Books by Héctor Tobar

Average rating: 3.67 · 1,003 ratings · 243 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Barbarian Nurseries 3.66 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States by Héctor Tobar, Hector Tobar 3.67 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar, Frankie J. Alvarez (Narrator) 3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Barbarian Nurseries [With Earbuds] by Héctor Tobar, Frankie J. Alvarez (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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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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