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Book Title: Paradise Travel
The author of the book: Jorge Franco
ISBN 13: 9780312425968
Language: English
Format files: PDF
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Edition: Picador
Date of issue: December 12th 2006
ISBN: 0312425961

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With stolen cash and tickets booked through a shady travel agency, Marlon Cruz and his girlfriend, Reina, have smuggled themselves out of Colombia and into the United States. But on their first night in New York City, they lose each other, and Marlon finds himself cast into the city's immigrant underworld, alone. As he searches for Reina in the bars and boarding houses where illegals congregate, the story of their harrowing cross over the border is retold, mapping the arc of a relationship that has transformed him into a reluctant immigrant.

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Son of Olga Stella Franco and Humberto Ramos, Jorge Franco studied film at the London International Film School and literature at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, but did not finish his studies. He began his writing career in 1991 and obtained his first award, the Pedro Gómez Valderrama, in 1996 for the short story collection Maldito amor (Cursed love). His first novel, Mala noche (Bad night), won the national Ciudad de Pereira competition of 1997.

His second novel Rosario Tijeras was published in 1999 and won the Premio Beca Nacional Colcultura and the Premio yermen pajaro of the literature event referred to as Semana Negra (Black week) in the Spanish city Gijón in 2000.

The Mexican film maker Emilio Maillé adapted this novel for film under the title Rosario Tijeras in 2004. In 2010 the RCN TV made a television adaptation, composed of 60 episodes and starring Maria Fernanda Yepes.

His third novel Paraíso Travel (Paradise Travel) was also made into a film by Colombian director Simon Brand. It was released in January 2008 with a musical score directed by renowned Colombian singer Fonseca.