The Years of Blood by Alma Guillermoprieto
For forty years and more Alma Guillermoprieto has wandered tirelessly over the Latin Americas, interviewing assassins and the families of their victims, talking to street sweepers and artists, rowdy carnival makers and thoughtful politicians (and plenty of rowdy politicians as well). Guillermoprieto draws out common threads in different contexts, like the effects of The War on Drugs in rural and poverty-stricken regions and the experiences of people mixed up in the fray of violence and drug trafficking. At the same time, she shows how Latin American art translates nostalgia and pain into great beauty. In The Years of Blood, the third volume of her collected stories, she completes her complex and always compelling portrait of the Latin America of our times, in all its tragedy and glory, as it traverses a new era of populism and demagoguery, and tries, yet again, to answer the great unsolved question: How do we change? How do we change our future so that it does not so exhaustingly resemble our past?
“No writer captures the joy and the pain of life in Latin America like Alma GuillermoprietoThis collection goes far beyond the usual headlines to explore the deeper currents shaping the human experiences of everyone who lives in our hemisphere.” -- Patrick Iber, author of * Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America *
Alma Guillermoprieto’s reports from the field have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and National Geographic magazine. Among many other distinctions, she has received a MacArthur Fellowship and the Princess of Asturias Humanities Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a laureate of the George Polk Awards in Journalism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781478031390 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478031395 |
| Title | The Years of Blood |
| Author | Alma Guillermoprieto |
| Series | American Encounters Global Interactions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2025-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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