War by Candlelight - Stories

"[Alarcon''s] tales, set largely in the hardscrabble world of Lima, build with all the power of a Flannery O''Connor story: a gentle enough start, an innocent setting, and before long the reader is adrift in a drama that defies the imagination--with characters that live long after the book is closed." -- Washington Post Book World In this exquisite story collection, Daniel Alarcon 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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Alarcon
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2006
• EAN: 9780060594800
• ISBN: 978-0-06-059480-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Short Stories, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: War & Military, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERATURE: SHORT STORIES, LITERATURE: LATIN AMERICA & LATINO, FICTION: World Literature / American / 21st Century, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Short Stories, Literature / Latin America & Latino