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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.]]> 54142 8 1643225 book 2007 Lost City Radio total:458|5:74|4:178|3:159|2:40|1:7| 458 1646 800 120 30593 3.67 637 158 23553916 185835 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 391
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.]]> 2007 0 6 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 16:33:47 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 19:48:57 -0700 2008 1984 and We, those worlds are all too recognizable and easy to ident...more...]]> 4780381 155932 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 3 2 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 19 16:24:41 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 16:32:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 730242 34924 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 5 1 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 15 09:41:44 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:00:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 31738656 1320204 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 3 1 false Mon Sep 01 11:45:20 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 22:30:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 7562495 340071 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 5 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 20:12:25 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 16:46:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 47145471 712168 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 4 0 false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 09:20:58 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 09:36:17 -0800 2009 Norma is a brodcaster on whose radio show people call in with the names of those with show they've lost contact in the hopes that they will be listening an...more...]]> 70642923 2373480 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 0 0 false Wed Sep 09 15:05:40 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 15:06:17 -0700 2009
A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war.

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 t...more...]]> 18993566 635936 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 3 1 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 10:29:48 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 23:48:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 9305409 390410 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 3 1 false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 19 08:40:39 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 26 08:48:01 -0800 2008
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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.]]> 2007 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 06:37:46 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 04:04:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 55533231 196690 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 3 0 false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 19:42:05 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 08:14:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45461408 1008236 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:42:03 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:42:03 -0800 2009 Daniel Alarc_õn, a native of Peru, has personally witnessed the devastation he describes in his first full-length novel. Critics were full of praise for Alarc_õn's vivid descriptions, compelling characters, and refusal to side with any one political faction, though he obviously sympathizes with the ...

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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.]]> 2007 4 0 false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 12:47:26 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 11:33:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 15264697 412789 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 3 1 false Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 13:27:19 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 13:27:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1981184 87296 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 4 1 false Thu Jun 14 16:49:09 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 16:39:09 -0700 2007 53753737 133088 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 4 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 14:39:15 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 12:37:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 54181668 1869469 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 4 0 false Mon Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 17:54:38 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 18:00:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 39381214 1771000 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 3 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 05 11:56:16 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 12:01:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 44458485 317977 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 5 0 false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 18:19:55 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 18:23:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 32527991 266462 54142 0060594799 9780060594794 97 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 3.59 458
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.]]> 2007 3 0 false Tue Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 09:56:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 16:03:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3092811