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|title=At Night We Walk In Circles

|author=Daniel Alarcon

|publisher=Fourth Estate

|date=January 2014

|website=http://www.danielalarcon.com/

|summary=Set in Latin America, a series of fateful choices don't turn out so well for Nelson. Darkly humorous, if a little slow paced at times. Prepare to spend at least three quarters of the book wondering who the narrator is.

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Peruvian-born Daniel Alarcón returns to South America in this story of one man's downfall and the twists and turns of fate that not only contributed to this but also which compelled the narrator of this story to seek to understand what happened. The main character, a young man named Nelson whose plans to follow his older brother to the US are halted when his father dies forcing him to care for his mother, has trained to be an actor but his career is going nowhere. Then he lands a part in a notorious three person play that is going to tour the provinces. One of the trio is the play's writer, Henry, a man who was imprisoned under terrorist charges when the play was first produced. With Nelson's ex girlfriend now pregnant with another man's child, the temptation to get away from his life in his home city is too tempting. No one could have forecast what the impact this tour would have on his life though.