Faces of the Disappeared: Ayotzinapa; Achronicle of Injustice
Tryno Maldonado
(Author)
Chandler Thompson
(Translator)
Description
Award-winning Mexican author Tryno Maldonado personally immerses himself in the lives of the students of Ayotzinapa Normal School--victims in the still-unexplained kidnapping tragedy that took place in September 2014. In this narrative, he relives the events leading up to and during the horrific incident in which 43 students were brutalized at the hands of police and militarized narco-gang members, then vanished without a trace. With in-depth interviews of family members and friends of the "disappeared," as well as investigative reportage of the events leading up to and during the incident, Maldonado has created a viscerally powerful account of this tragedy that, to date, has yet to be resolved.Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Publish Date
October 01, 2018
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.6 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781943156535
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About the Author
Considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices in contemporary Mexican literature, Tryno Maldonado was born in 1977 in Zacatecas, México. He has contributed to some of the most important publications in Mexico and part of his work is included in national and international anthologies. He was named one of the best young Latin American writers by the Colombian magazine Gatopardo in 2006. Faces of the Disappeared is his first book to be translated into English. Chandler Thompson acquired his translating chops in the 1960s as a Peace Corps Volunteer, then while writing news stories in English from raw copy in Spanish and French. He's covered Mexico as a stringer for The Christian Science Monitor and as reporter for The El Paso Times. He translated Death in Veracruz between hearings while working as a court interpreter.
Reviews
"Faces of the Disappeared marks a significant contribution to the growing body of work available to English-language readers about one of modern Mexico's most defining tragedies. Maldonado reconstructs, in chilling detail, the chaos and horror tha" FRANCISCO CANTÚ Author of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from The Border
"Due to the fact that [this] is such a tragedy I hate to call it a page turner, but it is. As much as we are compelled to read the details of that horrific night, we ache just as much to read about how the missing were mostly just kids who took a wrong tur" BILL CARTER author of Fools Rush In: A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption
"...leaves a deep piercing wound in every human sensibility...the author threads the individual stories into a tapestry of muted colors and disturbing patterns...this is a book that will realign your perspective...Kudos to translator Chandler Thompson...a " JANIS PALMA Texas Master Level Court Interpreter
"Due to the fact that [this] is such a tragedy I hate to call it a page turner, but it is. As much as we are compelled to read the details of that horrific night, we ache just as much to read about how the missing were mostly just kids who took a wrong tur" BILL CARTER author of Fools Rush In: A True Story of Love, War, and Redemption
"...leaves a deep piercing wound in every human sensibility...the author threads the individual stories into a tapestry of muted colors and disturbing patterns...this is a book that will realign your perspective...Kudos to translator Chandler Thompson...a " JANIS PALMA Texas Master Level Court Interpreter
