丹尼尔·阿拉孔 ，1977年出生于利马，3岁后移民美国。美国青年作家，相继被《格兰塔》和《纽约客》选为40岁以下优秀青年小说家。迄今的两部作品短篇小说集《烛光下的战争》和长篇小说《失落之城电台》均用英语写成，后又被翻译为西班牙语在拉美地区出版。《烛光下的战争》入围2006年国际笔会/海明威奖最终决选名单。《城市寻人电台》被誉为“颇具野心的处女作”。

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>