Loteria

by Mario Alberto Zambrano

Book Overview

In Loter a , the spellbinding literary debut by Mario Alberto Zambrano, a young girl tells the story of her family's tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous Latin American game of chance. With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in jail, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo has been taken into the custody of the state. Alone in her room, she retreats behind a wall of silence, writing in her journal and shuffling through a deck...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062268546
• ISBN13: 9780062268549
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.3"