Lost City Radio
Subtitle: a novel
By: Daniel Alarcón
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780060594794
Subjects: Political atrocities -- Fiction; South America -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: The 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 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.