New York: HarperCollins - Rayo, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - An unusual novel by this Chilean writer, who is a leader of the Latin American literary movement known as McOndo. Like the author, the hero of this novel spent his childhood in Los Angeles, and when he is stranded there temporarily, he begins to remember the 50 most important movies of his teenage years during the 1960s and 70s. Translated from the Spanish by Ezra Fitz. 287 pp.