New York: HarperCollins 2005. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine infine dust jacket. The author's first book. From a review in the Guardian newspaper: ""Alarcón's War by Candlelight is a luminous beginning, crackling with attitude. Its contents flit between Lima and a 'folkloric' New York where 'the air was swollen with foreign tongues'. Alarcón is an urban wordsmith, attuned to big-city life, but 'beautiful, disgraced' Lima is his true muse and he serenades her slums and suburbs, her conmen and dreamers in such tales as 'City of Clowns'. Signed by the author.

ISBN: 60594780.

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