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A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war
HarperCollins
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0060594799
EAN: 9780060594794
Hardcover
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For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a
people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the
most popular program in their nameless South American
country, gripped in the aftermath of war. Every week, the
Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios
listen as she reads the names of those who have gone
missing, those whom the furiously expanding city has
swallowed. Loved ones are reunited and the lost are found.
Each week, she returns to the airwaves while hiding her own
personal loss: her husband disappeared at the end of the war. But the life she has become accustomed to is forever changed
when a young boy arrives from the jungle and provides a clue
to the fate of her long-missing husband. Stunning, timely, and absolutely mesmerizing, Lost City
Radio probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning:
from its devastating impact on a society transformed by
violence to the emotional scarring each participant,
observer, and survivor carries for years after. This tender
debut marks Alarcón's emergence as a major new voice in
American fiction.
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