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At Night We Walk in Circles

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by Daniel Alarcón


  Also by Daniel Alarcón

  Lost City Radio

  War by Candlelight

  About the Author

  Daniel Alarcón was born in Peru and raised in Alabama. His collection of short stories, War by Candlelight, was published in 2005 to great acclaim, and was followed by a novel, Lost City Radio, in 2007. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, n+1 and Harper’s, and he has been named as one of the best 20 writers under 40 by the New Yorker. He lives in Oakland, California. At Night We Walk in Circles is his second novel.

  Copyright

  Fourth Estate

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  First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2013

  First published in the United States by Riverhead Books in 2013

  Copyright © Daniel Alarcón 2013

  Daniel Alarcón asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

  Some of this work has been previously published in The New Yorker, in slightly different form, as ‘The Idiot President’.

  A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  Jacket design by Jason Booher

  This is a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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  Source ISBN: 9780007517398

  Ebook Edition © October 2013 ISBN: 9780007517428

  Version: 2013-10-07

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