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Lost City Radio
by Daniel Alarcón
ISBN-10: 0060594799
ISBN 13: 9780060594794
HarperCollins
$24.95 Hardcover
February 2007
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What's It About? |
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Norma, the voice of consolation to a nameless, timeless South American people broken by violence, is forever changed when a young boy from the jungle village--a community renamed as the number 1797 after the war--enters her radio studio and provides a connection to her husband, who disappeared years before.
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Who's Talking About It? |
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“Alarcón makes increasingly strong connections between city and jungle, the army and the rebels, and Norma and Victor, sending a powerful message about how war has a way of implicating everybody. Alarcón has mapped a whole nation and given its war-torn history real depth--an impressive feat.”--Kirkus Review, starred review
“Lost City Radio is a gripping and tense political fable, sharply rooted in a world we have come to recognize. With echoes of [George] Orwell and [Aldous] Huxley, and with images of astonishing originality, Daniel Alarcón creates a universe both menacing and tender, filled with characters imagined with skill and nuance.”--Colm Toibin, author of The Master
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Where Will I See It? |
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National media campaign, national radio interviews, print features and reviews, multi-city author tour, online promotion, and a reading group guide available online.
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From Lost City Radio: |
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Of course he'd heard Norma's voice before. In 1797, the owner of the village's canteen had a good radio, with an antenna long enough to get a signal from the coast, and so, each Sunday, the women and the children and the remaining men crowded in to listen. It was what they did instead of church. They gathered an hour before to eat and drink and gossip. Potatoes, mushy overripe fruit, and thin silver portraits of their missing, simple drawings that an itinerant artist had done years before. They hung these on the walls, rows of creased and smudged faces Victor didn't recognize, whose mute presence made the village seem even smaller. Then, at eight o'clock, there was a hush, and static, and that unmistakable voice through the tinny speakers: Norma, to listen and heal them; Norma, mother to them all.
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