The Art of Political Murder
Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?
'Simply seethes with violent action and counter-action, conspiracy and intrigue.' Ciaran Cosgrove, Irish TimesOn a Sunday night in 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death. Two days earlier, a Church-sponsored report had implicated Guatemala's government in the disappearances of 200,000 civilians. The Church, feeling that it could not rely on the legal system, took the controversial decision to assemble a team of men, 'Los Intocables' (The Untouchables), to take down the killers.The Art of Political Murder traces Los Intocables' struggle with the Guatemalan authorities to reveal the truth,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84887-195-3
- EAN: 9781848871953
- Produktnummer: 17710282
- Verlag: Atlantic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.3 cm 404 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 404
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Francisco Goldman's first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Ordinary Seaman, his second novel, was a finalist for the International IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award. Both novels were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Goldman's novel The Divine Husband was published by Atlantic Books in 2006. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and the New York Review of Books.
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