Thursday, March 8, 2007

People finders - A brave, New World of Latin literature

In his new novel, "Lost City Radio" (HarperCollins, $24.95), young Peruvian-born writer Daniel Alarc n has created a world that seems to exist simultaneously in the future and the distant past. It's a nameless war-torn country that bears some resemblance to the futuristic dystopias of "1984" and "Brave New World." But television and the Internet don't exist. People queue up to make long-distance ...