Lost City Radio (P.S.) - Softcover

Alarcon, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060594810 ISBN 13: 9780060594817

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios--a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio, she reads the names of those who have disappeared--those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody civil conflict, her own life is about to forever change--thanks to the arrival of a young boy from the jungle who provides a cryptic clue to the fate of Norma's vanished husband.

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Review:

"Alarcon's prose is quick and beautiful. This is a first novel that needs to be read."--Uzodinma Iweala, author of BEASTS OF NO NATION

"The idea of remembering - and its dangers - permeates the book...powerful and ambitious."--Daily News

"[An] ambitious first novel...Alarcon's successfully and nimbly handled portrayal of war's lingering consequences."--Publishers Weekly

"Alarcon writes about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a masterful clarity."--Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto

"[A] thoughtful, engaging first novel ...With the publication of Lost City Radio, Alarcón is off and running."--Jonathan Yardley for the Washington Post Book World

"Alarcón has mapped a whole nation and given its war-torn history real depth--an impressive feat."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"...Alarcón's novel eloquently fuses passion, violence, and societal trepidation at offending the ruling party. Grade: A-"--Entertainment Weekly

"...one of the most exciting and ambitious writers to emerge in recent years."--Colm Toibin, bestselling author of THE MASTER and two-time Booker Prize finalist

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060594810
• ISBN 13: 9780060594817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290