丹尼爾·阿拉孔 ，1977年齣生於利馬，3歲後移民美國。美國青年作傢，相繼被《格蘭塔》和《紐約客》選為40歲以下優秀青年小說傢。迄今的兩部作品短篇小說集《燭光下的戰爭》和長篇小說《失落之城電颱》均用英語寫成，後又被翻譯為西班牙語在拉美地區齣版。《燭光下的戰爭》入圍2006年國際筆會/海明威奬最終決選名單。《城市尋人電颱》被譽為“頗具野心的處女作”。

A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war </p>

For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country, gripped in the aftermath of war. Every week, the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios listen as she reads the names of those who have gone missing, those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Loved ones are reunited and the lost are found. Each week, she returns to the airwaves while hiding her own personal loss: her husband disappeared at the end of the war. </p>

But the life she has become accustomed to is forever changed when a young boy arrives from the jungle and provides a clue to the fate of her long-missing husband. </p>

Stunning, timely, and absolutely mesmerizing, Lost City Radio probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning: from its devastating impact on a society transformed by violence to the emotional scarring each participant, observer, and survivor carries for years after. This tender debut marks Alarcón's emergence as a major new voice in American fiction. </p>