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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 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.
Daniel Alarcón was born in
Lima, Peru, and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. His work has
been published in The New Yorker, Harper's,
and elsewhere. A former Fulbright Scholar to Peru and the
recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award for 2004, he lives in
Oakland, California.
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