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War By Candlelight

By Daniel Alarcon

Something is happening around the globe: the mass movement 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 Alarcón takes the reader from Third World urban centres to the fault lines that divide nations and people‚ personalising the shifting realities of our own contemporary world.

These nine stories examine the lives of various characters in transition − from unrepentant terrorists to immigrants wrestling with the idea of never returning home − men and women never entirely free of the convulsive conditions that define their lives. Wars‚ both national and internal‚ are waged in jungles‚ across borders‚ in the streets of Lima‚ in the intimacy of New York apartments.

ISBN: 9780007196739; ISBN10: 0007196733; Imprint: ; On Sale: 12/05/2006; Format: Paperback; Trimsize: 207 x 156 x 13 mm; Pages: 208; $25.95;

	Lost City Radio 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...
	Lost City Radio 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...

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