Juan Martinez, Oscar Martinez

The Hollywood Kid

The Violent Life and Violent Death of an Ms-13 Hitman
Übersetzung:Washington, John; Ugaz, Daniela Maria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso / Verso US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6103
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 146mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781786634931
• ISBN-10: 1786634937
• Artikelnr.: 54981991

Autorenporträt

Óscar Martínez writes for ElFaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America. El Faro was awarded in 2016 the Gabriel García Márquez Prize for Excellence in Journalism. He is the author of The Beast and A History of Violence. Juan José Martínez is a sociocultural anthropologist from Universidad Nacional de El Salvador. He has studied violence and gangs since 2008. He has been a lecturer at Universidad Mónica Herrera and has worked as a consultant for several institutions such as Action on Armed Violence, UNICEF, Soleterre and American University.

Rezensionen

(El Niño de Hollywood) is a revelation. As they track a single tragic life, Los Hermanos Martínez delve deep into El Salvador's tortured labyrinth, into the macabre working of the Mara Salvatruches, into the sinister consequence of failed US policies, and in the process recover what Neil Smith called the lost history of the American Empire. This is reportage made literature, darkness made light, and one of the most important books of investigative journalism I've read in years. Junot Diaz