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Language English Media type Print (hardcover) ISBN 0-06-059479-9 Originally published 30 January 2007 Genre Novel Country United States of America | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publication date January 30, 2007 Pages 257 pp OCLC 69423356 Publisher HarperCollins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction Similar Daniel Alarcón books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008 dlpp fiction runner up daniel alarco n for lost city radio
Lost City Radio is a 2007 novel written by Daniel Alarcón.
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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. It has been remarked for the ability to describe the people's sense of displacement