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From Kem Nunn, the National Book Award-nominated author of Tapping
the Source and The Dogs of Winter, comes an exquisitely written
tale of loss and redemption. Nunn renders the dangerous beaches and
waters of California's borderland as only the critically acclaimed
poet laureate of surf noir can, and Tijuana Straits confirms his
reputation as a master of suspense and a novelist of the first
rank. When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con,
meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the
ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean
-- a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves as the
Tijuana Straits. Magdalena has barely survived an attack that
forced her to flee Tijuana, and Fahey takes her in. That he is
willing to do so runs contrary to his every instinct, for Fahey is
done with the world, seeking little more than solitude from this
all-but-forgotten corner of the Golden State. Nor is Fahey a
stranger to the lawless ways of the border. He worries that in
sheltering this woman he may not only be inviting further
entanglements but may be placing them both at risk. In this, he is
not wrong. An environmental activist, Magdalena has become engaged
in the struggle for the health and rights of the thousands of
peasants streaming from Mexico's enervated heartland to work in the
maquilladoras -- the foreign-owned factories that line her
country's border, polluting its air and fouling its rivers. It is a
risky contest. Danger can come from many directions, from
government officials paid to preserve the status quo to thugs hired
to intimidate reformers. As Magdalena and Fahey become closer,
Magdalena tries to discover who is out to get her, attempting to
reconstruct the events that delivered her, battered and confused,
into Fahey's strange yet oddly seductive world. She examines every
lead, never guessing the truth. For into this no-man's-land between
two countries comes a trio of killers led by Armando Santoya, a man
beset by personal tragedy, an aberration born of the very
conditions Magdalena has dedicated her life to fight against, yet
who in the throes of his own drug-fueled confusions has marked her
for death. And so will Fahey be put to the test, in a final duel on
the beaches of his Tijuana Straits.
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Imprint: |
Scribner
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2005 |
First published: |
October 2005 |
Authors: |
Kem Nunn
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
307 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7432-7982-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-7432-7982-4 |
Barcode: |
9780743279826 |
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