Daniel Alarcón: City of Clowns

Описание: From his stunning reportage in Harper’s Magazine about conditions in Lurigancho, Peru’s largest and most notorious penal institution, to his dark and imaginative fiction, Daniel Alarcón has placed South American culture and politics at the heart of his writing. City of Clowns is his latest brilliant meditation. Created in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, this graphic novel follows Oscar “Chino” Uribe, a young Peruvian journalist. Chino is drawn into the haunted, fantastical world of Lima street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets, while he simultaneously confronts his father’s troubling legacy. Coya Paz, artistic director of Free Street Theater joins him in conversation.

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