The King Is Always Above the People

by Daniel Alarcon

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An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40, and one of the best storytellers of our time.

`The King is Always Above the People’ unites the stories of multiple characters whose lives, though lacking in heroic deeds, each reveal an underlying defiance of power in its different guises. A son is forced by his father to work as a guide to a blind man; a vibrator decides the fate of a couple’s love; a lesbian woman remembers her affair with the president.

These unforgettable stories are further proof of Daniel Alarcón’s standing as one of the best storytellers of our time, a writer who is able to fuse together the best aspects of both the Latin American and the American literary traditions.

  • ISBN13 9780007517374
  • Publish Date 22 February 2018 (first published 31 October 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd