War by Candlelight. Stories

"The engaging stories . . . draw on Peru's violent history, the plight of Lima's poor and the hopes of immigrants in New York . . . finely crafted fiction." — Chicago Tribune Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award 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 York apartments. These are lives at the margins of the globalized and not-yet-globalized worlds, the stories of those who shuttle between them and never quite feel at home in the cities where they were born: an unrepentant terrorist remembers where it all began, a would-be emigrant contemplates the ramifications of leaving and never coming back, a reporter turns in his pad and pencil for the inglorious costume of a street clown. War by Candlelight is a devastating portrait of a world in flux, and Daniel Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget. "[A] raw debut collection filled with dislocated, dutiful souls." — Entertainment Weekly "Precise, searing language and…

Издательство

Harper Collins

Год

2009

Страниц

256

Язык

английский

ISBN

9780061860294