A handbook to luck [a novel]
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415939673 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415939675 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 7:41:21. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Staci Snell. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 110497 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Cuban Americans -- California -- Fiction San Salvador (El Salvador) -- Social conditions -- Fiction Tehran (Iran) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
Late 1960s. We meet three children: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father ... Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador, forced to leave school to help support her family, her beloved older brother having already left home ... Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon's daughter in Tehran, her mother concerned only with appearances, her father an often foolishly vocal opponent of the Shah. As we follow them across the next twenty years--the narrative moving among their lives--we see Enrique, a math whiz from a young age, sacrificing his dream of attending MIT to filial duty, and the dream of passionate love to the exigencies of reality.