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‘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 drawn-out conflict, with the hope of reuniting the few survivors with their families. Successes are few; her true gift is the offer of hope. Although her face is unknown to her listeners, her name and spirit are celebrated by a wayward nation searching for a guiding force. But her life is forever changed when a young boy from a jungle village enters her radio studio and provides a connection to the husband she thought lost – the husband she has not seen for ten years since departing for the war. Her story and those tangled up in it reveal a country in flux, desperately seeking signs of life, and reasons to continue, amongst pain and uncertainty. Stunning, timely, powerful and absolutely mesmerizing, ‘Lost City Radio’ probes the deepest questions of war: from its wide reaching affect on a society to its intimate emotional impact on every person involved. This searing yet tender first novel marks Alarcón's emergence as a new voice in American fiction, fully-formed and ready to be heard.

LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION An 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 MacArthur "genius" and award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarc n'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 breakout novel from a prizewinning young writer: a "surrealistic tour de force" (O, The Oprah Magazine) about one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's 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, 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 Nu ez, leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. And that's when the real trouble begins. Nelson's fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson's story--and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarc n delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.

Gjennombruddsromanen til den unge prisvinnende forfatteren Daniel Alarcón: En original og spennende fortelling om en manns besatte leting etter sannheten om en annen manns spektakulære fall.Nelsons liv tar absolutt ikke den retningen han hadde sett for seg. Kjæresten hans ligger med en annen, broren har forlatt landet og Nelson må ta vare på sin gamle mor på egenhånd, og hans skuespillerkarriere ser ikke ut til å ta av. Det vil si helt til han får en viktig rolle i en omreisende oppsetning av det legendariske stykket Idiotpresidenten, opprinnelig satt opp av Nelsons store helt, lederen for det sagnomsuste teaterkompaniet Desember: Henry Nunez. De var kjent for sine vågale turer inn i konfliktområdet, hvor de virkelig levde ut betydningen av sitt slagord – Teater til folket! – med en ikke ubetydelig risiko for skuespillernes egen sikkerhet.Turneen tar Nelson ut av hans trygge tilværelse i byen og ut i et landskap fortsatt sterkt preget av arrene etter borgerkrigen. Og gjennom hver forestilling blir han sterkere og sterkere knyttet til sine medskuespillere og delaktig i deres livsfloker. Lojalitet settes på prøve når det viser seg at et tidligere svik ikke lar seg skjule og kaos truer kompaniet.Nelsons historie avsløres steg for steg av en ukjent forteller som kanskje har et nærmere forhold til historien enn han først gir inntrykk av. Alracon har skrevet en sinnrik roman som behandler livsvalg, identitet og hvordan tilsynelatende små valg kan få store konsekvenser, fortalt i et skarp og levende språk der hans Latin-Amerikanske opphav skinner tydelig gjennom.