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Loteria, July 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
HarperCollins
July 2013
On Sale: July 9, 2013
288 pages ISBN: 0062268546 EAN: 9780062268549 Kindle: B009R4IW5U Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
In Lotería, the spellbinding literary debut by Mario Alberto
Zambrano, a young girl tells the story of her family’s
tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous Latin
American game of chance.
With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in
jail, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo has been taken into the
custody of the state. Alone in her room, she retreats behind
a wall of silence, writing in her journal and shuffling
through a deck of lotería cards. Each of the cards’ colorful
images—mermaids, bottles, spiders, death, and stars—sparks a
random memory.
Pieced together, these snapshots bring into focus the joy
and pain of the young girl’s life, and the events that led
to her present situation. But just as the story becomes
clear, a breathtaking twist changes everything. Beautiful full-color images of lotería cards are featured
throughout this intricate and haunting novel.
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