false 30593 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 <![CDATA[Lost City Radio]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170436904m/54142.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170436904s/54142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54142.Lost_City_Radio 3.59 393
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.]]> 30593 3.67 639 158 2007 295228 0060594802 9780060594800 32 <![CDATA[War by Candlelight: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173477292m/295228.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173477292s/295228.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295228.War_by_Candlelight_Stories 3.86 147 Something is happening. Wars, both national and internal, are being waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. War by Candlelight is an exquisite collection of stories that carry the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people -- a devastating portrait of a world in flux -- and Daniel Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.

]]> 30593 3.67 639 158 2005 5966041 0 <![CDATA[Lost City Radio]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5966041.Lost_City_Radio 3.50 4 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. </P>

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 Alarcon's emergence as a major new voice in American fiction.

]]> 30593 3.67 639 158 2007 1667832 9870407471 9789870407478 0 <![CDATA[Los Mejores Jovenes Novelistas Estadounidenses (Granta En Espanol)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1667832.Los_Mejores_Jovenes_Novelistas_Estadounidenses 4.00 1 30593 3.67 639 158 2007 6612936 0 <![CDATA[El rey siempre está por encima del pueblo]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1247493539m/6612936.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1247493539s/6612936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6612936-el-rey-siempre-est-por-encima-del-pueblo 4.00 1 30593 3.67 639 158 6409697 3898138070 9783898138079 0 <![CDATA[Lost City Radio]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6409697-lost-city-radio 3.00 1 30593 3.67 639 158 2008 3054189 0816516553 9780816516551 0 <![CDATA[The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3054189.The_Aztec_Palimpsest_Mexico_in_the_Modern_Imagination 0.0 0 Mexico is more than a country; it is a concept that is the product of a complex network of discourses as disparate as the rhetoric of Chicano nationalism, English-language literature about Mexico, and Mexican tourist propaganda. The idea of "Mexicanness," says Daniel Cooper Alarcón, "has arisen through a process of erasure and superimposition as these discourses have produced contentious and sometimes contradictory descriptions of their subject." By considering Mexicanness as a palimpsest of these competing yet interwoven narratives, Cooper offers a paradigm through which the construction and representation of cultural identity can be studied. He shows how the Chicano myth of Aztlan was constructed upon earlier Mesoamerican myths, discusses representations of Mexico in texts by nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, and analyzes the content of tourist literature, thereby revealing the economic, social, and political interests that drive the production of Mexicanness today. This original linking of seemingly incongruous discourses corrects the misconception that Mexicanness is produced only by hegemonic groups. Cooper shows how Mexico has been defined and represented, by both Mexicans and non-Mexicans, as more than a political or geographic entity, and he particularly reveals how Mexicanness has been exploited by Mexicans themselves through the promotion of tourism as a form of neocolonialism. Cooper's work is valuable both for identifying attempts to revise and control Mexican myth, history, and culture and for defining the intricate relationship between history, historiography, and cultural nationalism. The Aztec Palimpsest extends existing analyses of Mexicanness into new theoretical realms and provides a fresh perspective on the relationship between the United States and Mexico at a time when these two nations are becoming more intimately linked.]]> 30593 3.67 639 158 1309277 0.0 0 0 0 7380614 9721058580 9789721058583 0 <![CDATA[A Rádio da Cidade Perdida - Uma fabulosa história de amor em tempos de guerra]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7380614-a-r-dio-da-cidade-perdida-uma-fabulosa-hist-ria-de-amor-em-tempos-de 0.0 0 No rescaldo do conflito, milhões de pessoas estão desaparecidas e famílias separadas, e a única réstia de esperança parece ser a Rádio da Cidade Perdida que divulga listas de desaparecidos e recebe chamadas em directo de pessoas que pretendem conhecer o destino de entes queridos que desapareceram durante o conflito. Norma é a locutora deste programa, escutado por toda a nação, e ela própria alimenta a secreta esperança de um dia saber o paradeiro do seu marido Rey, suposto guerrilheiro da Legião Ilegítima.
A sua vida sofre uma reviravolta quando um miúdo de 11 anos chega à estação de rádio e traz consigo a lista dos desaparecidos da aldeia 1797, um povoado remoto na selva, onde estranhamente consta o nome de Rey.
Da selva urbana devastada pela guerra e em escombros ao cenário exótico da selva natural, aos seus riachos e veredas, A Rádio da Cidade Perdida é uma fabulosa história de amor em tempo de guerra e o retrato de um país imaginário onde, no som ensurdecedor da guerra, ecoa uma mensagem de esperança transmitida pelas ondas da rádio.]]> 30593 3.67 639 158 3116054 0.0 0 0 2007