Bøker av Daniel Alarcon

"[Alarcón'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 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.

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.

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 Téa 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 Nonakäs 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.

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEThe breakout book from Daniel Alarcon, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40: a breathtaking, suspenseful search for the truth of one man's spectacular 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 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, with legendary guerrilla theatre troupe Diciembre. And that's when the real trouble begins.The tour takes Nelson across a landscape scarred by years of civil war. Forging bonds with his fellow actors, he becomes hopelessly entangled in their lives, until a long-buried betrayal erupts into chaos.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, Alarcon delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcon, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40, and one of the best storytellers of our time.

'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.