Desde el país de nunca jamás
Alma Guillermoprieto

NONFICTION | 2011 | 384 pages

The civil conflict in El Salvador, the Granada crisis, the Mozote massacre, the international success of the teenage group Menudo, the proliferation of sects and religions in Rio de Janeiro, and the fight between the Peruvian government and the Shining Path are only some of the topics covered by Alma Guillermoprieto’s legendary chronicles.

Published in between 1980 and 2008 in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, these texts are tiny works of art that reveal to us the most human side of some of the greatest events in Latin America during the past thirty years.

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“A marvelous read full of humanity, wisdom, curiosity, and knowledge.”
— The New York Times Book Review
“Her fearless reporting, as well as her eloquent descriptions and character sketches, hold the reader’s attention rapt.”
— Wall Street Journal
“Alma Guillermoprieto faces life with a notebook and a pen in hand. It’s her way of life. Her passion. And she enjoys it as intensely as possible.”
— Milenio