Nine short stories about people who have been displaced by war or economic crises take readers from the jungles and the streets of Lima to the sites of dangerous border crossings and intimate New York apartments, in a collection that features the experiences of terrorists, immigrants, and more.
Daniel Alarcon's debut story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award. He has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and has been named by Granta magazine one of the Best American Novelists under thirty-five. He is the associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning monthly magazine published in his native Lima, Peru. He lives in Oakland, California.