false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173477292m/295228.jpg 295228 7 <p>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. <i>War by Candlelight</i> 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.</p> 1282800 1 4 2005 War by Candlelight: Stories (P.S.) total:170|5:44|4:72|3:45|2:8|1:1| 170 660 272 38 5 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Feb 04 21:43:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 19:21:53 -0800 2008 War by Candlelight remains a close, meaningful favorite.]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 14:48:21 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 14:58:25 -0800 2007 War by Candlelight as part of my new project: To find contemporary (possibly American?) authors whose work wouldn’t immediately turn me off with snarky postmodern pyrotechnics and faux quirkiness, with concepts and plotlines that outstrip the prose, with the constant I-Get-It-Do-You-G...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Mar 20 10:36:05 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 10:57:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 28 17:12:01 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 20:25:08 -0800 2008
From Absence:

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Being compared to Flannery O'Connor is heady stuff, but I think he acquits himself very well.

Many of the stories you wish were longer; definitely the mark of a good author.

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