El Rey Siempre Está Por Encima del Pueblo / The Is Always Above the People

Nominado para el National Book Award de ficci n en el 2017



Las historias de unos personajes que intentan luchar contra el poder en cualquiera de sus formas y que confirman a Daniel Alarc n como uno de los m s destacados narradores contempor neos.

El rey siempre est por encima del pueblo recoge las historias de una serie de personajes cuyas vidas carecen de hero smo. Y sin embargo, en todas ellas vibran, soterradas, la violencia y la voluntad de rebeli n ante una figura paterna o paternalista, hacia el poder en cualquiera de sus formas. Un ni o es obligado por su padre a ejercer de lazarillo de un mendigo ciego y codicioso, hombres y mujeres construyen en una noche hist rica su lugar en el mundo, un vibrador decide el destino amoroso de una pareja, un homosexual recuerda sus amores con el presidente Lincoln... Rese as: El talento y la sabidur a de Alarc n est n por encima de su tiempo. .-The New York Times Book Review Leer a Alarc n es como presenciar la llegada de un nuevo John Steinbeck o un Gabriel Garc a M rquez. .-Star-Tribune ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 Alarc n'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.