Klail City

Klail City is the English version, written by the author, of Klail City y sus alrededores, which in 1976 won the most prestigious prize in Latin American fiction, Casa de las Americas, for the best Spanish American novel. It is the pivotal novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Series, a group of novels dealing with life along the Texas-Mexico border. Hinojosa writes about the often tragic, often funny goings-on in the small border town of Klail City.