At Night We Walk in Circles

Author: Daniel Alarcon
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Book Format: Paperback

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

A breathtaking, suspenseful search for the truth of one man's spectacular downfall, from Daniel Alarcon, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40.



Set in an unnamed South American country, a narrator we know little about pieces together the story - from journals, interviews, gossip, second-hand reports - of a young man called Nelson who travels through the mountains with a playwright and a motley collection of actors, performing a play that years earlier upset the authorities and had the playwright imprisoned. Nelson regrets leaving Ixta his girlfriend, who has since become pregnant with another man, the consequences of which will in the end overwhelm Nelson.

The travelling troupe eventually come to T-, home to the senile mother of the male lover of the playwright, who has since perished in prison. When Nelson, out of sympathy, impersonates the mother's dead son, chaos ensues as the two strands of the story are bound together.

About Daniel Alarcon
Daniel Alarcon was born in Lima, Peru, in 1977 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. His collection of short stories, 'War By Candlelight', was published in 2005 to great acclaim, and was followed by a novel, 'Lost City Radio', in 2007. His writing has appeared in 'McSweeney's', 'n+1', and 'Harper's', and he has been named one of the 20 best writers under 40 by the 'New Yorker. He lives in Oakland, California. 'At Night We Walk in Circles' is his second novel.

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Barcode # 9780007517411
Brand Fourth Estate Ltd
Artist / Author Daniel Alarcon
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