"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 h ..."
War by Candlelight (Paperback) by DanielAlarcon Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-00-719673-9, ISBN: 0-00-719673-3
"In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón 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 ..."
Lost City Radio(Reprint) by DanielAlarcon Paperback, 257 Pages, Published 2008 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-059481-7, ISBN: 0-06-059481-0
" For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barriosâa people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio, she reads the names of those who have disappearedâthose whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody civil conflict, her ..."
Lost City Radio(1st Edition) by DanielAlarcon Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Harper Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-06-059479-4, ISBN: 0-06-059479-9
"'Lost City Radio' is a poignant and deeply moving novel from a promising new author, which looks intensely at war's damaging effect on society and the individual. Ever since the civil war that took her husband ended, Norma has been the voice of consolation to a people broken by violence. Every week, bereft families listen to her radio show as she reads out the names of the missing, those who vanished in the clamour and brutality of the ..."
War by Candlelight(1st Edition) Stories (P.S.) by DanielAlarcon Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-059480-0, ISBN: 0-06-059480-2
"Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 224 in Publisher: Harper Perennial In this collection Daniel Alarcon takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that of a 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. ..."
"En el mundo, algo extrano esta sucediendo: hay movimientos masivos de gente, lenguas y culturas que crecen dislocadas entre guerras y economias en crisis. En pocas palabras, nuestro mundo esta cambiando. En este asombroso libro de cuentos, Daniel Alarcon transporta al lector de los centros urbanos tercermundistas a las lineas fragmentadas que muchas veces dividen naciones y personas. Un terrorista sin remordimientos recuerda sus comienz ..."
War by Candlelight(1st Edition) Stories by DanielAlarcon Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by Harper Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-06-059478-7, ISBN: 0-06-059478-0
"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 ..."
"For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios—a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio, she reads the names of those who have disappeared—those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody civil conflict, her own ..."
"The world's best contemporary writers―from Michael Chabon and Claire Messud to Jonathan Lethem and Amy Tan―engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fictionDrawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write. Paul Auster, Roddy Doyle, Allegra Goodman, Aleksanda ..."
"From 826 Valencia, the nonprofit tutoring center located in San Francisco, comes an anthology of essays about the American Dream by 51 students at John O’Connell High School. The American Dream is typically understood to be a promise of prosperity, equal opportunity, education, and ownership. To these young writers, it means a myriad of things as they recount stories about family, home, immigration, hardship, and their own hopes, as wel ..."
"LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEThe breakout book from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40: a breathtaking, suspenseful search for the truth of one man’s spectacular 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 and moved to the United States, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and ..."
The Secret Miracle The Novelist's Handbook by DanielAlarcon, Larry Bond 368 Pages, Published 2010 by St. Martin's Griffin ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-3583-8, ISBN: 1-4299-3583-9
"MEHMET MURAT SOMER Mehmet Murat Somer is one of Turkey's bestselling
novelists. He is the author of the Hop-Qiki-Yaya series of gay noir detective
novels, which include The Prophet Murderer; and The Kiss Murder SAŠA
STANIŠIC Saša Stanišić is the author of How the Soldier Repairs the
Gramophone, which was short-listed for the German Book Award and is being
translated into thirty languages. Stanišić lives in Germany. AMY TAN Amy Tan' ..."
War by Candlelight Stories by DanielAlarcon 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-186029-4, ISBN: 0-06-186029-8
"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 ..."
Lost City Radio A Novel by DanielAlarcon 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-174870-7, ISBN: 0-06-174870-6
"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2007 by HarperCollins
Publishers. ... The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as
follow: Alarcón, Daniel. Lost city radio: a novel / by Daniel Alarcón. — 1st ed. p.
cm. ISBN: ..."
"In eight illustrated books, elegantly held together in a single beribboned case, McSweeney's 28 explores the state of the fable--those astute and irreducible allegories one doesn't see so much anymore in our strange new age, when everyone is wild for the latest parable or apologue but can't find time for anything else. Featuring fable-length work by Daniel Alarcon, Sheila Heti, and Nathan Englander, and different illustrators for each p ..."