Al pie de un volcán te escribo
Alma Guillermoprieto

NONFICTION | 1995 | 436 pages

Some of the most important events in Latin American history are discussed in these chronicles. But these great events are not the only thing that captures Alma Guillermoprieto’s attention—she also is interested in the small details of everyday life, the vivid testimonies of anonymous characters, the humor of situations in which the absurd reality of “this continent that is so shocked, so tragic, and at the same time so funny and always, always, so moving“ involves us in again and again. The result is this grand fresco of contemporary Latin America that the Mexican journalist—one of the most acute observers and narrators of Latin American happenings—is able to trace with impeccable professionalism.

RIGHTS: spanish EDITORIAL NORMA

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