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    War by Candlelight: Stories

    By Daniel Alarcón

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    “[Alarcón’s] tales, set largely in the hardscrabble world of Lima, build with all the power of a Flannery O’Connor story: a gentle enough start, an innocent setting, and before long the reader is adrift in a drama that defies the imagination—with characters that live long after the book is closed.”  — Washington Post Book World

    In this exquisite story collection, Daniel Alarcón moves from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people to illuminate wars, both national and internal, waged in jungles, across the borders, in the streets of Lima, and in the intimacy of New York apartments. He tells of lives at the margins: an unrepentant terrorist remembers where it all began, a would-be emigrant contemplates the ramifications of leaving and never coming back, a reporter turns in his pad and pencil for the inglorious costume of a street clown. War by Candlelight is a devastating portrait of a world in flux from an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061860294
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    War by Candlelight: Stories
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    Daniel Alarcón

    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.

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    • 4/5
      This is the first of the books I've recieved from the Shelterbox book club, and is this is typical, these are going to be very good. Thbis is a set of short stories set in Peru and the US with the link being someone from peru. There is a lot of migraiton, from the country to the city and from the city to the US within these pages. At times it is an uncomfortable read, with violence, war and crime looking large. It does not make for a restful or particularly hopeful experience. But it is not devoid of light and shade or love and humour. In the first story, the prison is known as the University, as that's where you go when you finish hugh school. It's black but it is humour. The stories don't all work as well as each other, but there are some very good tales in here. That of Fernando and Juan Carlos being probably the pick of the crop. I'm looking forward to the discussion, to be held in October via Shelterbox's Facebook pages.
    • 4/5
      Daniel Alarcon is a Peruvian born writer who grew up in Birmingham Alabama of all places and who now lives in Oakland California. All of the short stories of this collection--written in English and not Spanish take place either in Peru or in the United States--specifically the NYC area. The strongest stories IMO are the ones set in Peru. Of particular note are the title story concerning a university professor and Shining Path guerilla who from a very young age feels called to right injustices when and as he sees them. Another 'City of Clowns' has a newspaper journalist doing a story on clowns which includes some on the job training in the real thing while alternatively he reminisces on the death of his father--a dishonest building contractor who would go back to sites he worked at later--and ransack them. 'A science for being alone' has a hapless bank clerk trying to win the hand of his girlfriend who thinks he didn't show enough gumption to her parents when she became pregnant with their daughter. Every year on her birthday the clerk brings his daughter presents and proposes to his girlfriend who turns him down. In the year of this story the girlfriend Sonia is deliberating on whether or not to take up another offer from another man living in the United States. These are subtly written and cleverly plotted stories. Considering Alarcon is all of 29 years old he may have a very long and productive career as a writer. He certainly has talent and this though maybe not earth shattering is a very very good collection.