{"product_id":"at-night-we-walk-in-circles-9781594632839","title":"At Night We Walk in Circles","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe breakout novel from a prizewinning young writer: a \"surrealistic tour de force\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) about one man's obsessive search to find the truth of another man's downfall.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot President\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Alarc?n\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the collection \u003ci\u003eThe King Is Always Above the People\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, the novel \u003ci\u003eAt Night We Walk in Circles\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the 2014 PEN-Faulkner Award, as well as the story collection \u003ci\u003eWar by Candlelight\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eLost City Radio\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarpers\u003c\/i\u003e, and he was named one of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's \"20 under 40\" and a MacArthur \"Genius\" Fellowship. He is Executive Producer of \u003ci\u003eRadio Ambulante\u003c\/i\u003e, and teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901712732434,"sku":"9781594632839","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15e79c44-5bff-4c0b-89b2-a0cda80dc3f1.jpg?v=1738436550","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/at-night-we-walk-in-circles-9781594632839","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}