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title: "At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel"
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# At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

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    Almost perfect!!
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2014*

So full of rich insights and observations about life and human beings. I wanted so much to add this to my "Top 10" list. However, the author disappointed greatly by not delivering on all the suspense built up in hundreds of pages. It was clear that it would not end well for the protagonist, but the ending was underwhelming. It almost feels like I was tricked into imagining a more dramatic ending that was never delivered.The discourse style, however, is brilliant. There are so many voices.  The many voices require the reader to consider so many perspectives about the plot and the characters. The unreliability of memory and other persons' perspectives is ever present. The main narrator interviews those involved in the story, both major and minor. Pieces of interviews are sprinkled into the arc of the story at the appropriate time. Like a good suspense story, certain important facts are withheld until needed.Alarcon has avoided "The Danger of a Single Story" that Chimananda Ngoze Adichie so eloquently describes in her TED Talk of the same name. We hear so many narrators that we are allowed to develop our own perspective based on the information provided by the various "reporters."The author plays freely with time without the reader becoming confused. I listened to this book and was always on the edge of my seat and constantly working at trying to fit in the timeframe of each piece of narrative; almost like working a well-crafted puzzle.  I enjoyed the book so much that I am listening to it a second time now that I know how it ends.I am still wrestling with my hard-nosed removal of that final star in the rating. If I just ignore the flaw the ending introduces, I would recommend this whole-heartedly to everyone and add it to my Top 10 List.  Perhaps I will come back and bump my rating up to 5 and put it on my list after all.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Novel of the Aftermaths of War Time Trauma
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 8, 2015*

Daniel Alarcon left Peru as a young child and settled with his family in Birmingham, Alabama.  He experienced Peru's war years while on summer vacations and through family stories.  Like others who experienced the war, it left a deep impression on him.  In one form or another, this experience of war informs Alarcon's first three novels."At Night We Walk in Circles" follows the well worn structure of the travel narrative.  Three friends/actors leave the capitol city to travel up into the mountains to recreate a legendary theatrical tour from the war years.  At its core, this narrative is a trip back into time and memory in an attempt to deal with a war time trauma.  Alarcon is a gifted writer and it was a pleasure to follow him on this journey.  But I must confess, the point of the journey alluded me.  "At Night We Walk in Circles" is a good novel but not as strong as the first two.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    SCATTERED LIVES
  

*by M***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 8, 2014*

This story takes place in Lima, Peru, during the bloody regime change in the 1980's.  The fighting in the city shut down the production of a successful three-man play, unfortunately titled "The Idiot President."  The playwright and lead actor was imprisoned the during the turmoil and after his release taught school for a few years.  Dissatisfied with their lives, he and a former fellow actor decide to revive "The Idiot President" by taking it to the countryside.  They audition young actors for the now deceased third character and choose a spirited a young man who stands out from the rest.  Nelson Nunez has recently missed a chance to immigrate to the United States and has broken up with a woman he loves.  Scarred from their unsettled backgrounds, the three set off.Early on, the narrator appears to be omniscient, but later reveals himself as a journalist who has crossed paths with the troupe and becomes involved in telling Nelson's story.  As as the troupe performs in scattered villages for food and shelter, a secret pops out in a stressful moment, and the unfolding story turns desperate and dangerous.

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