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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594631727
ISBN-13
9781594631726
eBay Product ID (ePID)
236890100
Product Key Features
Book Title
King Is Always above the People : Stories
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Hispanic & Latino, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-016056
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[S]howcases his talent as a master storyteller. In 10 vivid, captivating stories, Alarcn explores immigration, family relationships, secrets, betrayal, hope, love, heartbreak, forgiveness, and redemption." -- Buzzfeed "Superb... Throughout the collection, Alarcn writes with a spellbinding voice and creates a striking cast of characters. Each narrative lands masterfully and memorably, showcasing Alarcn's immense talent." -- Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) "A smart and understated collection that puts some new twists on old-fashioned identity crises." -- Kirkus Praise for Daniel Alarcn "His tales build with all the power of a Flannery O'Connor story: a gentle enough start, an innocent setting, and before long the reader is adrift in a drama that defies the imagination--with characters that live long after the book is closed." -- The Washington Post "Daniel Alarcn is a storyteller whose wisdom outpaces his youth, and whose talent is already ablaze." --ZZ Packer "Daniel Alarcn writes about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a masterful clarity." --Ann Patchett Praise for At Night We Walk in Circles "Wise and engaging . . . [a] layered, gorgeously nuanced work." -- The New York Times Book Review "Consistently compelling . . . Alarcn's smoothly polished prose [is] flecked with wit and surprisingly epigraphic phrases . . . with lines that knock the wind out of you." -- The Washington Post "Outstanding . . . a work that creates a multilayered world and invites you to enter it." --Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times "Masterful... A profound meditation on how identity is less a fixed substance within us than an ever-shifting performance in reaction to a perceived audience." --Anthony Marra, San Francisco Chronicle "Masterful . . . a sterling novel . . . brave, thoughtful and astute . . . elegant in its construction, it feels perfectly suited to bring Alarcn's tremendous talent to a wider audience." -- The Miami Herald "Compelling . . . an intellectual puzzle." -- The Boston Globe, Praise for The King Is Always Above the People "Superb... Throughout the collection, Alarcn writes with a spellbinding voice and creates a striking cast of characters. Each narrative lands masterfully and memorably, showcasing Alarcn's immense talent." -- Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) "A smart and understated collection that puts some new twists on old-fashioned identity crises." -- Kirkus Praise for Daniel Alarcn "His tales build with all the power of a Flannery O'Connor story: a gentle enough start, an innocent setting, and before long the reader is adrift in a drama that defies the imagination--with characters that live long after the book is closed." -- The Washington Post "Daniel Alarcn is a storyteller whose wisdom outpaces his youth, and whose talent is already ablaze." --ZZ Packer "Daniel Alarcn writes about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a masterful clarity." --Ann Patchett Praise for At Night We Walk in Circles "Wise and engaging . . . [a] layered, gorgeously nuanced work." -- The New York Times Book Review "Consistently compelling . . . Alarcn's smoothly polished prose [is] flecked with wit and surprisingly epigraphic phrases . . . with lines that knock the wind out of you." -- The Washington Post "Outstanding . . . a work that creates a multilayered world and invites you to enter it." --Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times "Masterful... A profound meditation on how identity is less a fixed substance within us than an ever-shifting performance in reaction to a perceived audience." --Anthony Marra, San Francisco Chronicle "Masterful . . . a sterling novel . . . brave, thoughtful and astute . . . elegant in its construction, it feels perfectly suited to bring Alarcn's tremendous talent to a wider audience." -- The Miami Herald "Compelling . . . an intellectual puzzle." -- The Boston Globe, "These stories explore immigration, family loyalty and redemption. Alarcn throws his characters into high-stakes situations to draw out humanity where it seems little hope is left." -- The Washington Post "Showcases his talent as a master storyteller. In 10 vivid, captivating stories, Alarcn explores immigration, family relationships, secrets, betrayal, hope, love, heartbreak, forgiveness, and redemption." -- Buzzfeed "Smart, political and incredibly engaging... Alarcn introduces readers to countless unforgettable characters along the way." -- Nylon (25 Books to Read this Fall) "Vividly realized characters encounter family secrets, uncertain futures, ill-fated love and redemption." -- Chicago Tribune "Complicated stories, told with consummate skill." --BBC "Spellbinding... Alarcon has a true gift for packing details and significance into short scenes. . . Every portrait is so memorable and sharply written that it lingers in your mind and tests your ability to confront the intense predicaments we all find ourselves in at one point or another." --Cup of Jo "Superb... Throughout the collection, Alarcn writes with a spellbinding voice and creates a striking cast of characters. Each narrative lands masterfully and memorably, showcasing Alarcn's immense talent." -- Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) "Dynamic novelist and journalist Alarcn delivers a collection of loosely affiliated short stories, each buzzing and alive...Alarcn's gift for generating real, tangible characters propels readers through his recognizable yet half-real worlds." -- Booklist "A smart and understated collection that puts some new twists on old-fashioned identity crises." -- Kirkus Praise for Daniel Alarcn "His tales build with all the power of a Flannery O'Connor story: a gentle enough start, an innocent setting, and before long the reader is adrift in a drama that defies the imagination--with characters that live long after the book is closed." -- The Washington Post "Daniel Alarcn is a storyteller whose wisdom outpaces his youth, and whose talent is already ablaze." --ZZ Packer "Daniel Alarcn writes about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a masterful clarity." --Ann Patchett Praise for At Night We Walk in Circles "Wise and engaging . . . [a] layered, gorgeously nuanced work." -- The New York Times Book Review "Consistently compelling . . . Alarcn's smoothly polished prose [is] flecked with wit and surprisingly epigraphic phrases . . . with lines that knock the wind out of you." -- The Washington Post "Outstanding . . . a work that creates a multilayered world and invites you to enter it." --Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times "Masterful... A profound meditation on how identity is less a fixed substance within us than an ever-shifting performance in reaction to a perceived audience." --Anthony Marra, San Francisco Chronicle "Masterful . . . a sterling novel . . . brave, thoughtful and astute . . . elegant in its construction, it feels perfectly suited to bring Alarcn's tremendous talent to a wider audience." -- The Miami Herald "Compelling . . . an intellectual puzzle." -- The Boston Globe, Praise for Daniel Alarcn "His tales build with all the power of a Flannery O'Connor story: a gentle enough start, an innocent setting, and before long the reader is adrift in a drama that defies the imagination--with characters that live long after the book is closed." -- The Washington Post "Daniel Alarcn is a storyteller whose wisdom outpaces his youth, and whose talent is already ablaze." --ZZ Packer "Daniel Alarcn writes about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a masterful clarity." --Ann Patchett Praise for At Night We Walk in Circles "Wise and engaging . . . [a] layered, gorgeously nuanced work." -- The New York Times Book Review "Consistently compelling . . . Alarcn's smoothly polished prose [is] flecked with wit and surprisingly epigraphic phrases . . . with lines that knock the wind out of you." -- The Washington Post "Outstanding . . . a work that creates a multilayered world and invites you to enter it." --Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times "Masterful... A profound meditation on how identity is less a fixed substance within us than an ever-shifting performance in reaction to a perceived audience." --Anthony Marra, San Francisco Chronicle "Masterful . . . a sterling novel . . . brave, thoughtful and astute . . . elegant in its construction, it feels perfectly suited to bring Alarcn's tremendous talent to a wider audience." -- The Miami Herald "Compelling . . . an intellectual puzzle." -- The Boston Globe
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Dewey Decimal
863.7
Synopsis
LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION An urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles . Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in "The Bridge." A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in "The Ballad of Rocky Rontal." And in the tour de force novella, "The Auroras", a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world., LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION An urgent, essential collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles . Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarc n's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in "The Bridge." A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in "The Ballad of Rocky Rontal." And in the tour de force novella, "The Auroras," a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world.
LC Classification Number
PS3601.L333A6 2017
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