The Vilcek Foundation. Dalkey Archive, $16 trade paper (600p) ISBN 978-1-56478-806-1
This anthology is composed of selections from 22 writers recognized by the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, an award given annually to a young American immigrant (Dinaw Mengestu won in 2011). The anthology, with a foreword by Charles Simic,...
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Daniel Alarcon, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-059478-7
Civil strife and natural disasters mark these nine unflinching stories set in upper Manhattan and the blighted countryside and atrophied capital of Peru. Callous government forces destroy a prison controlled by rioting inmates in the grimly poetic &#
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Daniel Alarcon, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-06-059479-4
Set in a fictional South American nation where guerrillas have long clashed with the government, Alarcón's ambitious first novel (after the story collection War by Candlelight
) follows a trio of characters upended by civil strife. Norma,
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Daniel Alarcón. Riverhead, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-59463-171-9
In Alarcón’s (Lost City Radio) novel, Nelson is a young actor living in a nameless Latin American country. He is happy to learn that he has been selected to join Diciembre, a guerrilla theatre troupe. He will be performing in a politically...
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Daniel Alarcón. Riverhead, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59463-172-6
Alarcón (At Night We Walk In Circles) delivers a superb collection of 10 stories about wanderers, lovers, and fractured families. The fiery “The Ballad of Rocky Rontal” fictionalizes the true story of a violent gang member’s tenuous emotional...
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