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In Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions, Daniel Cooper Alarcón argues that travel literature performs important social and cultural criticism often overlooked in studies of the genre. By examining non-fiction and fiction novels and short stories that purposefully examine different types of travel in relationship to each other, Cooper Alarcón documents and highlights the sophisticated ways that both types of writing have anticipated and contribut...

A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil warFor ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country, gripped in the aftermath of war. Every week, the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios listen as she reads the names of those who have gone missing, those whom the furiously expand...

Something is happening around the globe: mass movements of peoples, dislocations of language and culture in the wake of war and economic crises -- simply put, our world is changing.In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New Yor...

Diciembre adli tiyatro kumpanyasinin son kalan iki mensubu, Henry ve Patalarga, eski ve unutulmaz bir deneyimi bir kez daha yasamayi kafaya koymus, oyundaki ücüncü karakterin rolünü yeni mezun Nelsona vermis, Peru kirsalinda Ahmak Cumhurbaskani adli oyunla turneye cikmistir. Kitap boyunca Perunun yakin tarihini, ülkeyi perisan eden ic savasi, o savasin etkilerini, bu üc aktörün cok ilginc ve sürprizlerle dolu kisisel hikayeleri araciligiyla ög...

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LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONAn urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón's hands, these are transformed into deeply human st...

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LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONAn urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón's hands, these are transformed into deeply human st...

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Daniel Alarcón (Lima, 1977) es considerado uno de los narradores más importantes de su generación, tanto en el Perú como en Latinoamérica y hasta en Estados Unidos, país en el que radica desde la infancia. Tras sus dos primeros libros de temática eminentemente peruana (ambos ambientados en los años 80), Alarcón acaba de publicar El rey siempre está por encima del pueblo (...

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In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle--swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even, briefly, to Epcot Center and the Havana home of a Cuban transsexual named Amy Winehouse. Featuring contemporary writers from ten different countries--...

Eine Frau, deren Stimme einem verwüsteten Land die Hoffnung zurückgibt, ein Kind ohne Eltern und die Geschichte einer entzweiten Liebe - Lost City Radio ist das großartige, universelle Portrait eines Landes zwischen Repression und Bürgerkrieg.

Mitten in der chaotischen Millionenstadt Lima begegnen wir dem jungen Journalisten Óscar, der eine Reportage über als Clowns verkleidete Bettler schreiben soll, und dem Lastwagenfahrer Gregorio Rabassa. Wir werden Zeugen davon, wie ein junger Mann, El Pintor, sein Kunststudium abbricht und sich der Guerilla anschließt, um die Bewohner Limas mit schwarz angemalten Hunden zu erschrecken, und begleiten den zehnjährigen Maico zu seiner Arbeit an ...

Alarcons highly anticipated novel tells the story of three people searching for answers in a country ravaged by war. "War by Candlelight, " the authors debut story collection, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN Hemingway Award.

A brilliant collection of stories from one of the "New Yorker"'s 20 best writers under 40. Deeply human stories which mix migration, betrayal, family secrets, doomed love and uncertain futures.