Lost City Radio

“Daniel Alarcon writes

about subterfuge, lies, and the arbitrary recreation of history with a

masterful clarity. By accepting the premise that war is senseless, he goes on

to make sense of the lives that are destroyed in its wake. Lost City

Radio is both ambitious and resonant.” — Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel

Canto and The Dutch House

In his critically

acclaimed debut novel, award winning author Daniel Alarcón

vividly portrays an anonymous nation searching for its identity at the end of a

war with no clear right or wrong.

For ten years, Norma has

been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains

and the poor from the barrios—a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost

City Radio, she reads the

names of those who have disappeared—those whom the furiously expanding city has

swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But

in the aftermath of the decade long bloody civil conflict, her own life is about

to forever change—thanks to the arrival of a young boy from the jungle who

provides a cryptic clue to the fate of Norma's vanished husband.

Stunning, timely, and absolutely mesmerizing, Lost City Radio probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning: from its devastating impact on society to the emotional scarring each survivor carries for years after.