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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books
  • First Book:
    The Tattooed Soldier (June 1998)
  • Last Book:
    The Last Great Road Bum (September 2020)
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Books in Order: 4 titles

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  • In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life wo...




  • The great panoramic social novel that Los Angeles deserves -- a twenty-first century, West Coast Bonfire of the Vanities by the only writer qualified to capture the city in all its glory and complexity With The Barbarian Nurseries, Héctor Tobar gi...



  • Antonio Bernal is a Guatemalan refugee in Los Angeles haunted by memories of his wife and child, who were murdered at the hands of a man marked with yellow ink. In a park near Antonio's apartment, Guillermo Longoria extends his arm and reveals a sini...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hector Tobar has published 4 books.

Hector Tobar does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Last Great Road Bum, was published in September 2020.

The first book by Hector Tobar, The Tattooed Soldier, was published in June 1998.

No. Hector Tobar does not write books in series.