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    The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
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    The King Is Always Above the People: Stories

    Written by Daniel Alarcón

    Narrated by David DeSantos

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    About this audiobook

    LONGLISTED for the 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

    An urgent, essential 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 Alarcón'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 unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9780525498025
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    The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
    Author

    Daniel Alarcón

    Daniel Alarcón was born in Lima, Peru, in 1977 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of the story collection War by Candlelight, a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and Lost City Radio, winner of the 2009 International Literature Prize. His writing has appeared in Granta, n+1, McSweeney’s and Harper’s, and he has been named of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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