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War by Candlelight: Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Daniel AlarconPublish date:2006-04-11Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060594800ISBN-10:60594802UPC:9780060594800Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), War & Military, LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCSSS8A4AK

" Alarc n'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 Alarc n 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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060594800ISBN-10:60594802UPC:9780060594800Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), War & Military, LiterarySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCSSS8A4AK
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Daniel Alarcon's debut story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award. He has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and has been named by Granta magazine one of the Best American Novelists under thirty-five. He is the associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning monthly magazine published in his native Lima, Peru. He lives in Oakland, California.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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Daniel Alarcon

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