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Life Among the Pirates | Daniel Alarcón | Granta Magazine

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Daniel Alarcón on Peru’s book pirates – from Granta 109: Work.

Life Among the Pirates | Daniel Alarcón | Granta Magazine Skip to main content Life Among the Pirates Daniel Alarcón ‘Being pirated is the Peruvian equivalent of making the bestseller list.’ 1 I n March of last year, Rodrigo Rosales, the director of the Peruvian offices of the international publisher Planeta, got an urgent call from Madrid. Paulo Coelho’s people were upset. It seems the Brazilian writer’s latest novel, O vencedor está só (published in English as The Winner Stands Alone ), had been seen on the streets of Lima in an unauthorized edition. Rosales was taken aback. Coelho is a stea

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