{"product_id":"9780140288612","title":"The Tattooed Soldier","description":"Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hector Tobar's debut novel is a tragic tale of destiny and consequence set in downtown Los Angeles on the eve of the 1992 riots. Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee haunted by memories of his wife and child murdered at the hands of a man marked with a yellow tattoo. Not far from Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a tattoo--yellow pelt, black spots, red mouth. It is the mark of the death squad, the Jaguar Battalion of the Guatemalan army. A chance encounter ignites a psychological showdown between these two men who discover that the war in Central America has followed them to the quemazones, the \"great burning\" of the Los Angeles riots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A suspenseful novel . . . Tobar has a fine storyteller's instinct and moves his characters toward the climax with the skill of a chess master.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A chilling revenge story.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important and unusual contribution to the Latin experience in American literature.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Finalist for a 1999 PEN Center USA West Award\u003cp\u003eThe son of Guatemalan immigrants, Hector Tobar is a National Correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and was part of the writing team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 riots. He holds an MFA from the University of California at Irvine.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008583680240,"sku":"9780140288612","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140288612_p0.jpg?v=1763655101","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140288612","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}