Daniel Alarcón

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 award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón'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.

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The King is Always Above the People

Feeling unfulfilled in the wake of personal and professional setbacks, South American youth Nelson lands a starring role in a revival of a legendary play by his hero and confronts the realities of civil war while touring unfamiliar landscapes. By the award-winning author of Lost City Radio.

At Night We Walk in Circles

Sheila Alvarado

Oscar "Chino" Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father's other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father's murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world.

City of Clowns

Süha Sertabiboğlu

Kayıp kentin radyosu

Republica and Grau

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 award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón’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 King Is Always Above the People

La balada de Rocky Rontal

Chino, un joven periodista, se enfrenta a la muerte de su padre al tiempo que escribe una crónica sobre payasos callejeros, tristes personajes que deambulan por una Lima violenta y corrupta. Este relato de Daniel Alarcón, incluido en su primer libro, Guerra a la luz de las velas, adquiere ahora, en colaboración con la artista Sheila Alvarado, una nueva dimensión. El formato de novela gráfica, sus viñetas e imágenes, sus oscuridades y silencios, parecen encajar idealmente con el tono de la historia original. Con Lima como protagonista, y utilizando un audaz lenguaje visual, Ciudad de payasos genera un impacto entrañable.

Ciudad de payasos (Novela gráfica)

Luis Fernando Afanador

El nuevo cuento latinoamericano

A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns. From the author of The King Is Always Above the People, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Oscar “Chino” Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.

Come si scrive un romanzo. Manuale di scrittura creativa a più voci

Es läuft nicht gerade rund für Nelson. Sein Bruder hat die lateinamerikanische Heimat in Richtung USA verlassen, und seine Freundin trifft einen anderen, wird schwanger. Für den jungen Schauspieler ist es deshalb ein Lichtblick, als er vom legendären Theatermacher Henry Núñez für eine Rolle besetzt wird. Zusammen gehen sie auf Tournee und spielen in den Städten der Provinz, auf Marktplätzen und vor Bergleuten, ein Stück über Leben und Tod. Doch bei einem dieser Gastspiele kommt es zum Eklat: Nelson gibt seine Rolle im Stück auf und nimmt im echten Leben eine falsche Identität an, die ihn als tragischen Helden in die Irre führen wird. Mit diesem Roman hat sich Alarcón endgültig in die erste Reihe der bedeutendsten US- amerikanischen Autoren geschrieben. Vorsätzlich werden hier die Grenzen zwischen Kunst und Leben verwischt - wie schon in seinem großartigen, in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzten Debütroman Lost City Radio gilt auch hier: Liebe ist immer politisch.

Des Nachts gehn wir im Kreis

Téa Obreht

Ismet Prcic

American Odysseys is an anthology of twenty-two writers drawn from the shortlist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. Including work by Dinaw Mengestu, Téa Obreht, Yiyun Li, and introduced by poet Charles Simic, this collection is proof, if any be needed, that the heterogeneity of American society is its greatest asset. 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 Nonaka’s 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.

American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans

Once relatos que narran las vidas de unos personajes que pelean sus propias guerras internas y que sienten no pertenecer a ninguna parte . De Lima a New York, de la Tercera Avenida al asentamiento humano Siglo XX, Guerra a la luz de las velas transporta al lector a grandes ciudades, a la selva, al tercer mundo. Un periodista que se convierte en payaso, unos enamorados viven juntos a escondidas de la familia hindú de la novia, un pueblo es sepultado por el barro y las piedras de una montaña, un terrorista recuerda el triste inicio de su carrera violenta.

Guerra a la luz de las velas

Un groupe de révolutionnaires parcourt les rues de Lima, le jour de l’indépendance, et massacre méthodiquement les chiens errants de la ville en un geste révolutionnaire symbolique ; un jeune peintre péruvien vient à New York pour présenter quelques tableaux, se perd dans les rues de la ville et songe à ne jamais rentrer chez lui ; un père et ses deux enfants fuient leur ville entièrement détruite par la guerre et se réfugient dans la lande péruvienne...Ces neuf nouvelles coup de poing, toutes marquées par la guerre, la sauvagerie guerrière, l’exil et la perte, révèlent la puissance d’évocation de ce jeune auteur, à qui le plus grand avenir littéraire est promis.

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