Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger 'examines America's guerilla war between the haves and
have-notes with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities'(Observer) When Delaney
Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian he neither reports the accident nor takes his
victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant
17-year-old wife leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But these two
men are fated against each other as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal
immigrants who he thinks are turning his state park into a ghetto and a boiling pot of racism
and prejudice threatens to spill over.
