Animales luminosos (Luminous Animals), by Jeremías Gamboa, follows a student who arrives at a university in Colorado, United States, in search of the American dream in its academic version. Over the course of a single night, the protagonist's identity is constructed in an intimate novel that addresses migration, culture shock, Latin American racism, and white American supremacy, while a group of friends experiences their doubts with profound vitality and love becomes a refuge and perhaps also an answer.

Jeremías Gamboa is a Peruvian writer, also the author of the acclaimed novel Contarlo todo.

• Publisher: Literatura Random House
• Author: Jeremías Gamboa
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 224
• Binding: Paperback
• Genre: Fiction / Latin American narrative

Publisher: Literatura Random House · Shipping: Throughout Chile