Boyle, T.C.: *1948
The Tortilla Curtain, 1995 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- The novel is about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction.
- Information from Wikipedia
- Information from T.C. Boyle`s Homepage
- Facts
- Winner of the 1997 French Prix Médicis Étranger prize for best foreign novel.
- The title comes from a common phrase for the Mexican border, the tortilla curtain.
- Glossary
- Characters
- Reader's Guide. (Interview and discussion questions)
- Spanish-English Glossary for the vocabulary used in The Tortilla Curtain
- Articles
- Tortilla Curtain resonates in high school classrooms. The book was a hit with the students. The Press Democrat; February 13, 2010
- Tortilla Curtain and The Ecology of Fear by Gregory Meyerson, 2004 (pdf 25 pages)
- T.C. Boyle talks about 'Tortilla Curtain' and censorship. Identity Theory ; March 19, 2003
- The Pilgrim of Topanga Creek by Scott Spencer. "Mr. Boyle deftly portrays Los Angeles's Topanga Canyon, catching both its privileged society and its underlying geological and ecological instability." The New York Times; September 3, 1995