Daniel Alarcón
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Imparting comfort while reading the names of missing people to her war-ravaged listeners, radio host Norma finds her life irrevocably changed when a young boy from a remote jungle village provides a connection to her long-missing husband.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A slyly political 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 Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Este libro recoge las historias de una serie de personajes cuyas vidas carecen de heroísmo. Y sin embargo, en todas ellas vibran, soterradas, la violencia y la voluntad de rebelión ante una figura paterna o paternalista, hacia el poder en cualquiera de sus formas. Los cuentos de Alarcón están profundamente arraigadas en las realidades sociopolíticas de América Latina. En "El Puente", por ejemplo, se analiza la muerte de una pareja pobre que...
Author
Publisher
Santillana S.A
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Imparting comfort while reading the names of missing people to her war-ravaged listeners, radio host Norma finds her life irrevocably changed when a young boy from a remote jungle village provides a connection to her long-missing husband.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Hardcover
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"The breakout book from a prizewinning young writer: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's 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...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcon's story City of Clowns. 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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood. This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel García Márquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, and translated and introduced...
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