Lost City Radio

Lost City Radio

infobox Book |
name = Lost City Radio


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author = Daniel Alarcón
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country = United States
language = English
genre = Novel
publisher = HarperCollins
release_date = January 30, 2007
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 257 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-060594-79-9

"Lost City Radio" is a 2007 novel written by Daniel Alarcón.

Plot summary

After a ten-year insurrection set in a nameless South American country in which the totalitarian government defeated a rebel group, the government has eliminated all indigenous languages and renamed all places as numbers; radio is the only remaining convenience. The protagonist, Norma, is the voice of a popular radio show that attempts to reconnect war refugees with their families. Yet Norma too has lost during the war: her husband disappeared on a trip to a jungle village called "1797". One day a boy arrives from "1797" along with a list of missing for Norma to read over the radio, jarring Norma to recall the details of her life with her husband and his possible fate.

Though the novel is set in South America it does not contain a single word of Spanish. [http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-alarcon2feb02,0,3203018.story?coll=cl-books-top-right]

Reviews

* [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/books/reviews/4710593.html "Blurring the moral lines: Fictional Latin American country is torn apart by violence"] by John Freeman, "Houston Chronicle", April 13, 2007.

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