Daniel Alarcón

A slyly political 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 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.The thousands --The ballad of Rocky Rontal --The king is always above the people --Abraham Lincoln has been shot --The provincials --Extinct anatomies --República and Grau --The bridge --The lord rides a swift cloud --The auroras

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 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.

A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war For 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 expanding city has swallowed. Loved ones are reunited and the lost are found. Each week, she returns to the airwaves while hiding her own personal loss: her husband disappeared at the end of the war. But the life she has become accustomed to is forever changed when a young boy arrives from the jungle and provides a clue to the fate of her long-missing husband. Stunning, timely, and absolutely mesmerizing, Lost City Radio probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning: from its devastating impact on a society transformed by violence to the emotional scarring each participant, observer, and survivor carries for years after. This tender debut marks Alarc�n's emergence as a major new voice in American fiction.

In this exquisite story collection, Daniel Alarcón moves from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people to illuminate wars, both national and internal, waged in jungles, across the borders, in the streets of Lima, and in the intimacy of New York apartments. He tells of lives at the margins: 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 from an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.

A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns. Oscar “Chino” Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.

La balada de Rocky Rontal nos lleva a descubrir la sonoridad de un puñado de relatos que resuenan a lo largo y ancho del continente. La fiereza con la que un hombre, detrás de los muros de una cárcel limeña, haría lo que fuera por defender las páginas que ha escrito. Las reacciones de los habitantes de un barrio construido sobre cadáveres. La desolación de una familia que se puso en manos de un reality televisivo. El temor cotidiano de jóvenes en busca de su identidad que son intimidados por la policía de California. Este libro, en palabras del autor, nos acerca a las vidas que tratamos de esconder y que muchas veces catalogamos como desechables, aunque no lo sean.

A ten year old boy is enlisted to help a blind man beg at a traffic intersection, and is exposed to a new side of humanity.

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.

American Odysseys is an anthology of twenty-two novelists, poets, and short-story writers drawn from the shortlist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. Including Ethiopian-born Dinaw Mengestu, the recipient of the Prize; Yugoslavian-born T� Obreht, the youngest author to receive the Orange Prize in Fiction; and Chinese-born Yiyun Li, a MacArthur Genius grantee, what these authors all have in common--and share with US Poet Laureate Charles Simic, who has contributed a foreword--is that they are immigrants to the United States, now excelling in their fields and dictating the terms by which future American writing will be judged by the world. Running the gamut from desperate realism to whimsical fantasy--from Miho Nonaka's poetry, inspired by fourteenth-century Noh theater, to Ismet Prcic's wrenching stories set in the aftermath of the Bosnian war--American Odysseys is proof, if any be needed, that the heterogeneity of American society is its greatest asset.

En 2007, Daniel Alarcón formó parte de la selección Bogotá39, un certamen literario en el que se reunieron 39 escritores jóvenes provenientes de diecisiete países de Latinoamérica con el objetivo de destacar las nuevas voces y tendencias de la literatura latinoamericana.Ausencia es la contribución del autor a la antología vinculada a Bogotá39 y que, siete años después, recupera arrobabooks. Pese al tiempo transcurrido, éste no ha hecho sino confirmar las expectativas, la ambición y la absoluta vigencia de aquella propuesta y de aquellos autores. Biografía Daniel Alarcón (Lima, 1977) vive en Estados Unidos desde su infancia. Se graduó en la Universidad de Columbia e hizo un máster de Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Iowa. Debutó en el panorama literario con el libro de relatos Guerra a la luz de las velas (finalista del Premio PEN/Hemingway 2006), al que siguieron Radio Ciudad Perdida, que ganó el Premio de Literatura Internacional en 2009, y su segundo libro de relatos El rey siempre está por encima del pueblo (2010). Ha firmado la novela gráfica Ciudad de payasos, con la ilustradora Sheila Alvarado. Su último trabajo es la novela De noche andamos en Círculos. Daniel Alarcón ha sido considerado uno de los mejores jóvenes novelistas estadounidenses por la revista Granta y por The New Yorker, y en 2009 obtuvo el premio Internacional Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Sus escritos han aparecido en diversas publicaciones de Estados Unidos y Europa. Asimismo, es editor asociado de la revista peruana Etiqueta Negra, así como cofundador de Radio Ambulante.

Buku ini berisi 20 cerpen dari 17 penulis:Pertunjukan di Awan – Daniel AlarcónPicasso – César AiraMalam-Malam Penghabisan di Bumi – Roberto BolañoPagar dari Kata-Kata – Patricio PronBukti Kepolosan – Andrés NeumanHenri Simon Leprince – Roberto BolañoSebuah Tulisan tentang Iman – Juan VilloroFaulkner – Edmundo Paz SoldánEnrique Martin – Roberto BolañoMembaca Pemahaman: Teks No. 1 – Alejandro ZambraPagi Hitam – Pedro MairalRumah yang Mereka Kuasai – Julio CortazarCelaka Sambung-menyambung – Andrés NeumanMengunjungi Sang Maestro – Patricio PronPerihal Seekor Anjing – César AiraGorila di Kongo – Alejandra CostamagnaSensor – Luisa Valenzuela“Memangnya Ada yang Peduli pada Debu di Rumah Hemingway?” – José Miguel TomasenaLelaki Tua di Atas Gunung – Roberto BolañoTerima Kasih – Alejandro Zambra

En el mundo, algo extraño está hay movimientos masivos de gente, lenguas y culturas que crecen dislocadas entre guerras y economías en crisis. En pocas palabras, nuestro mundo está cambiando. En este asombroso libro de cuentos, Daniel Alarcón transporta al lector de los centros urbanos tercermundistas a las líneas fragmentadas que muchas veces dividen naciones y personas. Un terrorista sin remordimientos recuerda sus comienzos, un posible inmigrante contempla las consecuencias de irse y no volver jamás, un reportero cambia su lápiz y papel por el trágico disfraz de un payaso callejero. Son guerras tanto nacionales como internas, que se llevan a cabo en la selva, en las calles de Lima o en la intimidad de un apartamento neoyorquino. Son vidas que se viven al margen del mundo globalizado y sin globalizar, son las historias de quienes constantemente viajan entre mundos diferentes sin jamás sentirse del todo en casa. Guerra en la Penumbra ilumina las grietas con las que todos tropezamos en el mundo moderno. Daniel Alarcón es un talento excepcional, una voz difícil de olvidar una vez el libro llega a su extraordinario y devastador desenlace.

Original Fiction, Short StoryRogelio was the youngest of three, the skinniest, the least talkative. As a boy, he slept in the same room as his brother, Jaime, and…

Hebrew language book

Hebrew Language Book

Num país perdido da América Latina grassa uma violenta guerra civil entre as forças do governo e as facções guerrilheiras reunidas sob o comando da Legião Ilegítima. No rescaldo do conflito, milhões de pessoas estão desaparecidas e famílias separadas, e a única réstia de esperança parece ser a Rádio da Cidade Perdida que divulga listas de desaparecidos e recebe chamadas em directo de pessoas que pretendem conhecer o destino de entes queridos que desapareceram durante o conflito. Norma é a locutora deste programa, escutado por toda a nação, e ela própria alimenta a secreta esperança de um dia saber o paradeiro do seu marido Rey, suposto guerrilheiro da Legião Ilegítima. A sua vida sofre uma reviravolta quando um miúdo de 11 anos chega à estação de rádio e traz consigo a lista dos desaparecidos da aldeia 1797, um povoado remoto na selva, onde estranhamente consta o nome de Rey. Da selva urbana devastada pela guerra e em escombros ao cenário exótico da selva natural, aos seus riachos e veredas, A Rádio da Cidade Perdida é uma fabulosa história de amor em tempo de guerra e o retrato de um país imaginário onde, no som ensurdecedor da guerra, ecoa uma mensagem de esperança transmitida pelas ondas da rádio.