THE KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE THE PEOPLE - Couverture souple

Alarcón, Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 000751736X ISBN 13 : 9780007517367

Editeur : Fourth Estate, 2018

Synopsis

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction

An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40, and one of the best storytellers of our time.

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Alarcón was born in Lima, Peru, in 1977 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of the story collection War by Candlelight, a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and Lost City Radio, winner of the 2009 International Literature Prize. His writing has appeared in Granta, n+1, McSweeney’s and Harper’s, and he has been named of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 000751736X
• ISBN 13: 9780007517367
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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