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The Beast: Riding The Rails And Dodging Narcos On The Migrant Trail
Óscar Martínez
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Description for The Beast: Riding The Rails And Dodging Narcos On The Migrant Trail
Paperback. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 colour photographs. BIC Classification: JFFN; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 346.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist & The Financial Times
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling ... Read more
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist & The Financial Times
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
345 g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781682975
SKU
V9781781682975
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About Óscar Martínez
Óscar Martínez writes for ElFaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America. His first book, The Beast, was named one of the best books of the year by the Economist and the Financial Times. In 2008, Martínez won the Fernando Benítez National Journalism Prize in Mexico, and in 2009, he was awarded the Human Rights Prize at the José Simeón ... Read more
Reviews for The Beast: Riding The Rails And Dodging Narcos On The Migrant Trail
A heartbreaking book about the world's most invisible people. A revelatory work of love and hair-raising courage.
Alma Guillermoprieto, Latin America correspondent for the New York Review of Books, author of Dancing with Cuba To understand the dramatic realities faced by the migrants who flee northwards to find work in the United States, Óscar Martínez literally jumped trains and ... Read more
Alma Guillermoprieto, Latin America correspondent for the New York Review of Books, author of Dancing with Cuba To understand the dramatic realities faced by the migrants who flee northwards to find work in the United States, Óscar Martínez literally jumped trains and ... Read more