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Lost City Radio
''Lost City Radio'' is a 2007 novel written by Daniel Alarcón. Plot summary After a ten-year insurrection set in a nameless South American country in which the totalitarian government defeated a rebel group, the government has eliminated all indigenous language An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous peoples. This language is from a linguistically distinct community that originated in the area. Indigenous languages are not neces ...s and renamed all places as numbers; radio is the only remaining convenience. The protagonist, Norma, is the voice of a popular radio show that attempts to reconnect war refugees with their families. Yet Norma too has lost during the war: her husband disappeared on a trip to a jungle village called ''1797''. One day a boy arrives from ''1797'' along with a list of missing for Norma to read over the radio, jarring Norma to recall the details of her life with her husband and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón (born March 5, 1977 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian-American novelist, journalist and radio producer. He is co-founder, host and executive producer of '' Radio Ambulante'', an award-winning Spanish language podcast distributed by NPR. Currently, he is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University Journalism School and writes about Latin America for ''The New Yorker.'' He began his career writing fiction, publishing stories in magazines like ''The New Yorker'', ''Granta'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' and elsewhere, and his short stories have been widely anthologized. He served as Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine '' Etiqueta Negra'' until 2015. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru, and a 2011 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. His novel '' At Night We Walk in Circles'' was published by Riverhead Books in October 2013. His most recent story collection, ''The King is Always Above the People'', was long-li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |