At Night We Walk in Circles
Author: Alarcon, Daniel
ISBN: 9780007517411
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 384
Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
A breathtaking, suspenseful search for the truth of one man’s spectacular downfall, from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40.
Set in an unnamed South American country, a narrator we know little about pieces together the story – from journals, interviews, gossip, second-hand reports – of a young man called Nelson who travels through the mountains with a playwright and a motley collection of actors, performing a play that years earlier upset the authorities and had the playwright imprisoned. Nelson regrets leaving Ixta his girlfriend, who has since become pregnant with another man, the consequences of which will in the end overwhelm Nelson.
The travelling troupe eventually come to T______, home to the senile mother of the male lover of the playwright, who has since perished in prison. When Nelson, out of sympathy, impersonates the mother’s dead son, chaos ensues as the two strands of the story are bound together.
ISBN: 9780007517411
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 384
Dimensions: 200mm x 130mm x 25mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
A breathtaking, suspenseful search for the truth of one man’s spectacular downfall, from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40.
Set in an unnamed South American country, a narrator we know little about pieces together the story – from journals, interviews, gossip, second-hand reports – of a young man called Nelson who travels through the mountains with a playwright and a motley collection of actors, performing a play that years earlier upset the authorities and had the playwright imprisoned. Nelson regrets leaving Ixta his girlfriend, who has since become pregnant with another man, the consequences of which will in the end overwhelm Nelson.
The travelling troupe eventually come to T______, home to the senile mother of the male lover of the playwright, who has since perished in prison. When Nelson, out of sympathy, impersonates the mother’s dead son, chaos ensues as the two strands of the story are bound together.
