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"A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in "The Bridge." A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in "The Ballad of Rocky Rontal." And in the tour de force novella, "The Auroras", a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of u
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Los cuentos de Alarcón están profundamente arraigadas en América Latina realidades sociopolíticas. En "El Puente", por ejemplo, se analiza la muerte de una pareja pobre que vive en un barrio pobre de una extensa ciudad imaginaria, humanizar el anonimato de lo que no podría parecer más puntos en una multitud de peatones. En la historia del título, un joven deja su pueblo de provincia y se dirige a la ciudad con la esperanza de escapar. La pobreza, las injusticias políticas, traiciones, sueños rotos, y las intrigas de la familia son parte del arsenal de Alarcón y se describen con ironía y humor.
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