War by Candlelight: Stories
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...
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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 Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060594800 (0060594802)
Publish date: April 11th 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
In War by Candlelight, Daniel Alarcon shines a flickering light on a piece of modern Peruvian history. On, and it’s 1989, with two fighters in the jungle, one about to die; off, then on again, and it is 1966 where the father of one of those fighters is proudly sending his son off to university; off,...