The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman

The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman

Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and disappearances of some two hundred thousand civilians. Realizing that it could not rely on police investigators or the legal system to solve the murder, the church formed its own investigative team, a group of secular young men in their twenties who called themselves Los Intocables (the Untouchables). Known in Guatemala as The Crime of the Century, the Bishop Gerardi murder case, with its unexpectedly outlandish scenarios and sensational developments, confounded observers and generated extraordinary controversy. In his first nonfiction book, acclaimed novelist Francisco Goldman has spoken to witnesses no other reporter has reached, and observed firsthand some of the most crucial developments in the case. Now he has produced The Art of Political Murder, a tense and astonishing true detective story that opens a window on the new Latin American reality of mara youth gangs and organized crime, and tells the story of a remarkable group of engaging, courageous young people, and of their remarkable fight for justice.

FRANCISCO GOLDMAN is the author of three novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, which received the Sue Kaufman Prize for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Ordinary Seaman, which was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Divine Husband, which was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Divine Husband Goldman has worked as a contributing editor for Harper's magazine, and his fiction, journalism, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications. He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the T.

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ISBN 13	9780802118288
ISBN 10	0802118283
Title	The Art of Political Murder
Author	Francisco Goldman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2007-09-10
Number of pages	416
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