Wars of the Interior - Softcover

Zárate, Joseph

 
9781783786152: Wars of the Interior

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In this searing work of documentary, Zárate takes three of Peru's most precious resources - gold, wood and oil - and exposes the tragedy, violence and corruption tangled up in their extraction. Wars of the Interioris a deep insight into the cultures alive in the vanishing Amazon, and a forceful, shocking exposé of the industries destroying this land.

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Jospeh Zarate received the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Award in 2018 and the Ortega y Gasset Prize in 2016. He has served as deputy editor of the magazines Etiqueta Negra and Etiqueta Verde and was awarded a 2018 Ochberg Fellowship by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma of the School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Wars of the Interior was named one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times in Spanish, Forbes Mexico and by Deutsche Welle.

Annie McDermott's translations from Spanish and Portuguese include Dead Girls by Selva Almada, Empty Words by Mario Levrero, Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz (with Carolina Orloff) and City of Ulysses by Teolinda Gersao (with Jethro Soutar). She has previously lived in Mexico and Brazil, and is now based in London.

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A searing account of the struggle between the indigenous people of the Amazon and the Andes and the hungry global industries of gold, wood and oil. There is a war raging in Peru, waged on the land by the global industries that we rely on, plundering the Amazon and the Andes. Joseph Zárate's stunning work of documentary exposes the tragedy, violence and corruption tangled up in the extraction of precious resources, and the indigenous communities fighting for their rights.

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