The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now

by Alma Guillermoprieto

Overview

An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307787965
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/16/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Alma Guillermoprieto writes frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. She is the author of Looking for History, The Heart That Bleeds, and Samba, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1995. Raised in Mexico and the United States, she now makes her home in Mexico City.

Editorial Reviews

This is a presentation of authoritative, clearly written essays--called by the author "dispatches," a term that is, intentionally or not, reminiscent of the old days of trench-coated foreign correspondents--about the Latin America of the past four years, published originally in the "New Yorker". Mexican-born, U.S.-raised, Guillermoprieto has been all over the region about which she speaks; and her pieces are based not only on her own observations but also on her conversations with citizenry high and low. Specifically, she writes about Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Panama. Whether she's talking about violence and drug traffic in one country, or guerrilla activity in another, or the ubiquity of garbage in yet another, her overarching theme is why these countries find the clothes of late-twentieth-century modernity ill-fitting and what that discomfort portends for their particular futures. Guillermoprieto offers no easy answers, simply appreciating the largeness of the questions."

Brad Hooper

"Powerful...a literary gem...wonderfully written dispatches that capture the richness and intensity of Latin America's reality. Those wanting a feel for the spirit of Latin America or what lies behind the headlines will hardly find more vivid accounts of the region's recent history."—The Miami Herald

"The Heart That Bleeds is the work of a master...Guillermoprieto has brought back reports that are unforgettable, brave in their clearsightedness, but unstinting, too, in their passion and sympathy. The countries of Latin America now have their Orwell."—David Remnick

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