1994American Visa
Juan de Recacoechea
A noir of the real altiplano capital: a provincial schoolteacher lands in the thin air of La Paz to chase a United States visa, gets stuck, and drifts down through the cheap hotels, pool halls, brothels, markets and cafes of the steep lower town. The map runs from the political heart at Plaza Murillo and the church of San Francisco down the Prado to the rough hostel quarter and out to the queue at the American embassy.
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