At Night We Walk in Circles (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594632839)

The breakout novel from a prizewinning young writer: a "surrealistic tour de force" (O, The Oprah Magazine) about one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's downfall.

Nelson's life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man; his brother has left their South American country, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother; and his acting career can't seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President, a legendary play by Nelson's hero, Henry Nu ez, leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. And that's when the real trouble begins.

Nelson's fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson's story--and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarc n delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.

Author: Daniel Alarc
ISBN-10: 1594632839
ISBN-13: 9781594632839
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2014
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/12/2014 pg. 24