Daniel Alarcón
Goodreads Author
Born
in Lima, Peru
Website
Member Since
July 2012
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At Night We Walk in Circles
41 editions
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2013
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Lost City Radio
47 editions
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2007
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The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
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2009
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War by Candlelight
25 editions
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2005
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City of Clowns
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2011
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The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook
11 editions
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2010
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La balada de Rocky Rontal
5 editions
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2017
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Republica and Grau
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Bogota 39
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2008
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Los provincianos
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2013
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“The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely.
That was why he'd always dreamed of leaving, and why he'd always been so afraid to go.”
― At Night We Walk in Circles
That was why he'd always dreamed of leaving, and why he'd always been so afraid to go.”
― At Night We Walk in Circles
“Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.”
― At Night We Walk in Circles
― At Night We Walk in Circles
“That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.”
― At Night We Walk in Circles
― At Night We Walk in Circles
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The Seasonal Read...: 15.4 - Learn Your Numbers | 137 | 382 | Aug 19, 2010 10:47PM | |
The Book Challenge: Connie M's Book Challenge for 2010 - COMPLETED!! | 56 | 87 | Jan 01, 2011 01:24PM | |
Reading with Style:
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9 | 54 | Mar 24, 2012 11:37AM | |
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California Reads: * August 17 Author Q&A with Daniel Alarcón | 27 | 92 | Aug 17, 2012 04:08PM | |
The Life of a Boo...: 20 Under 40 | 15 | 410 | Feb 16, 2013 07:39AM | |
Fiction Fanatics: A - Z 2013 | 60 | 120 | Jan 02, 2014 03:21PM | |
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Literary Fiction ...: PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists Include Percival Everett & Daniel Alarcón | 1 | 20 | Mar 06, 2014 01:50PM |

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