War by Candlelight: Stories
by Alarcon, Daniel
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0060594780
- ISBN 13
- 9780060594787
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About This Item
Something is happening around the globe: mass movements of peoples, dislocations of language and culture in the wake of war and economic crises -- simply put, our world is changing.
In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcon takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. These are lives at the margins of the globalized and not-yet-globalized worlds, the stories of those who shuttle between them and never quite feel at home in the cities where they were born: 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 ofa world in flux, and Daniel Alarcon is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.
Synopsis
Something is happening. Wars, both national and internal, are being waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. War by Candlelight is an exquisite collection of stories that carry the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people -- a devastating portrait of a world in flux -- and Daniel Alarcon is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.
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- Bookseller
- Eureka Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 286799
- Title
- War by Candlelight: Stories
- Author
- Alarcon, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060594780
- ISBN 13
- 9780060594787
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
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