War by Candlelight

A work of vivid imagination from this exciting new voice in Latin American fiction. Something is happening around the globe: the mass movement 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 Alarcon takes the reader from Third World urban centres to the fault lines that divide nations and people, personalising the shifting realities of our own contemporary world. These nine stories examine the lives of various characters in transition - from unrepentant terrorists to immigrants wrestling with the idea of never returning home - men and women never entirely free of the convulsive conditions that define their lives. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments.

Daniel Alarcón

Fourth Estate

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcon, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40, and one of the best storytellers of our time. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In `The Thousands', people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in `The Bridge'. A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in `The Ballad of Rocky Rontal'. And in the tour de force novella, `The Auroras', a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world.

KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE PEOPLE PB

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

At Night We Walk in Circles

NPR “Best Books of 2013” BookPage Best Books of 2013 Bookriot “Best Books of 2013” San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of 2013: Francisco Goldman Flavorwire 15 Favorite Novels of 2013 The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man’s obsessive search to find the truth of another man’s downfall. Nelson’s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man, his brother has left their South American country, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and his acting career can’t seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President, a legendary play by Nelson’s hero, Henry Nunez, leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. And that’s when the real trouble begins. The tour takes Nelson out of the shelter of the city and across a landscape he’s never seen, which still bears the scars of the civil war. With each performance, Nelson grows closer to his fellow actors, becoming hopelessly entangled in their complicated lives, until, during one memorable performance, a long-buried betrayal surfaces to force the troupe into chaos. Nelson’s fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson’s story—and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarcón delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.

Harpercollins

War By Candlelight

Harper-collins Publishers

Alarcon,D., Des Nachts *

Wagenbach, K

EL MEJOR PUNTO DE ENCUENTRO DE UN GRUPO DE ESCRITORES DEBE SER EL ESPACIO DE UN LIBRO. Y. precisamente. esta antología agrupa a los 39 escritores menores de 40 años. seleccionados dentro de la gran cantidad de autores que imaginan y publican ahora mismo desde todas las ciudades de América Latina.La presente antología de cuento latinoamericano. Bogotá 39. hace honor a la diversidad. a la inmensa riqueza de puntos de vista y escrituras que conviven. por lo general. ignoradas en nuestro idioma. Este libro desea eliminar ese injusto desconocimiento de nuestros autores. Apostar por el reconocimiento de tantas y diversas formas de entender la literatura.El lector se sorprenderá en muchos casos al confirmar los matices. las similitudes y las abiertas diferencias entre los escritores incluidos. Pero se emocionará aún más. al descubrir a escritores jóvenes de nuestra lengua en un ejercicio de plena madurez literaria. poseedores de un universo de preocupaciones propio y de la personalidad distinguible de una escritura profunda y mayor.

bogota 39 antologia de cuento latinoamericano

Wendy Guerra

JUNOT DÍAZ

Rodrigo Hasbún

Eduardo Halfon

João Paulo Cuenca

Gabriela Alemán

Álvaro Enrigue

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

Rodrigo Blanco Calderón

Claudia Amengual

Álvaro Bisama

Pablo Casacuberta

Gonzalo Garcés

Antonio García Ángel

EDICIONES B COLOMBIA

Peru: Denominación de origen

Fernando Iwasaki

Otros

Fernando Ampuero

Carlos Yushimito

Taller de edición Rocca

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