Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
Autor Tina Rosenbergen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 1992 – vârsta de la 18 ani
An honest judge in Medellin, a Maoist guerilla of Peru's Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina's Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nicaragua, and the ordinary Chileans who became silent partners in Pinochet's dictatorship—these people live in Latin America, but their stories illuminate the human face of violence all over the world.Tina Rosenberg spent five years trying to understand their world and learning to live with these "children of Cain." Their stories are disturbing precisely because these people are not monsters; the faces in Children of Cain are not those of strangers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140172546
ISBN-10: 0140172548
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 133 x 197 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 0140172548
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 133 x 197 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
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Cuprins
Children of Cain Introduction
One: Quijote
Two: The Good Sailor
Three: Dialectic
Four: The Laboratory
Five: The Triumph
Six: The Pig's Tail
Selected Bibliography
One: Quijote
Two: The Good Sailor
Three: Dialectic
Four: The Laboratory
Five: The Triumph
Six: The Pig's Tail
Selected Bibliography
Recenzii
"Rosenberg presents vivid portraits of the people 'who made cruelty possible' in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Peru. Through them she succeeds in making the grisly and fleeting headlines from those places understandable.'
—The New York Times Book Review
"There is perhaps no more succinct and authoritative account of . . . pivotal events in recent Latin American history. There is certainly no better-written and more riveting account."
—The Washington Post Book World
"Rosenberg . . . provides sharp analysis and history. . . . This is an important book. Rosenberg asks all sides for answers, ad braves real physical danger, and retains a healthy incredultiy and sense of humor."
—Newsday
"It is Rosenberg's intelligent eye, her sense of the absurd, her unfailing courage and perseverance, and most important, her empathy and compassion that bring Children of Cain to life and start to lead North American readers down the hard path toward understanding Latin America."
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
—The New York Times Book Review
"There is perhaps no more succinct and authoritative account of . . . pivotal events in recent Latin American history. There is certainly no better-written and more riveting account."
—The Washington Post Book World
"Rosenberg . . . provides sharp analysis and history. . . . This is an important book. Rosenberg asks all sides for answers, ad braves real physical danger, and retains a healthy incredultiy and sense of humor."
—Newsday
"It is Rosenberg's intelligent eye, her sense of the absurd, her unfailing courage and perseverance, and most important, her empathy and compassion that bring Children of Cain to life and start to lead North American readers down the hard path toward understanding Latin America."
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
Notă biografică
Journalist Tina Rosenberg lived and traveled extensively in Latin America from 1985 to 1991. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic. She now lives in Washington, D.C.
Descriere
Award-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spent five years in Latin America--drinking coffee with hit men and sunbathing with death-squad financiers--to understand people for whom violence is a way of life. Her six vivid and haunting portraits illuminate the human face of violence, not only in Latin America, but all over the world.