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Chromos

Felipe Alfau

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Chromos is the American immigration novel par excellence. Its opening line is: "The moment one learns English, complications set in." Or, as the novel illustrates, the moment one comes to America, the complications set in. The cast of characters in this book are immigrants from Spain who have one leg in Spanish culture and the other in the confusing, warped, unfriendly New World of New York City, attempting to meld the two worlds that just won't fit together. While wildly comic and populated with some of the most bizarre characters, Chromos is also strangely apocalyptic, moving towards point zero and utter darkness.

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
1990
ISBN-13
9781564782045
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Immigration and cultural identitySpanish-American experienceMetafiction and narrative experimentation

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