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Philip Gourevitch is the author of A Cold Case (2002), You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know (2028), Standard Operating Procedure (2008), The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (2009), The Paris Review Interviews (2007).

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A Cold Case

release date: Jul 10, 2002
A Cold Case
A tale of crime and punishment from a prizewinning writer. A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, an inspector for the Manhattan District Attorney''s office, was abruptly reminded of an old, unsolved double homicide. It bothered him that Frankie Koehler, the notoriously dangerous suspect, had eluded capture and was still at large. Rosenzweig had known the victims of the crime, for they were childhood friends from the South Bronx: Richie Glennon, a Runyonesque ex-prizefighter at home with both cops and criminals, and Pete McGinn, a spirited restaurateur and father of four. Rosenzweig resolved to find the killer and close the case. In a surprising, intensely dramatic narrative, Philip Gourevitch brings together the story of Rosenzweig''s pursuit with a mesmerizing account of Koehler''s criminal personality and years on the lam. A Cold Case carries us deep into the lives and minds, the passions and perplexities, of an extraordinary cop and an extraordinary criminal whose lives were entwined over three decades. Set in a New York City that has all but disappeared, and written with a keen ear for the vibrant idiom of the colorful men and women who peopled its streets, this is nonetheless a book for our times. Gourevitch masterfully transforms a criminal investigation into a searching literary reckoning with the forces that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers."

You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know

release date: May 01, 2028

Standard Operating Procedure

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Standard Operating Procedure
Two of the country''s top moral and political observers have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved.

The Ballad of Abu Ghraib

release date: Jan 01, 2009
The Ballad of Abu Ghraib
Collects the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the controversial digital photographs from Abu Ghraib, in a collaborative account of Iraq''s scandal-marked occupation that reveals how it is being experienced by both guards and prisoners. 100,000 first printing.

The Paris Review Interviews

release date: Jan 01, 2007
The Paris Review Interviews
A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world''s best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. From Faulkner''s determination that a great novel takes ''ninety-nine percent talent . . . ninety-nine percent discipline . . . ninety-nine percent work'', to Gabriel Márquez''s observation that ''in the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book'', The Paris Review has elicited revelatory and revealing thoughts from our most accomplished novelists, poets and playwrights. With an introduction by Orhan Pamuk, this volume brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, comprising: Graham Greene, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Robert Lowell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eudora Welty, John Gardner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Philip Larkin, James Baldwin, William Gaddis, Harold Bloom, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Peter Carey and Stephen King. ''A colossal literary event'' as Gary Shteyngart put it, The Paris Review Interviews vol. 2 is a treasury of wisdom from the world''s literary masters.

Queremos informarle de que mañana seremos asesinados con nuestras familias

release date: Feb 21, 2019
Queremos informarle de que mañana seremos asesinados con nuestras familias
Un extraordinario reportaje, ganador de numerosos premios internacionales, sobre el genocidio ruandés. El 6 de abril de 1994, el avión del presidente de Ruanda fue abatido por un misil. Al día siguiente el gobierno animaba a la mayoría hutu a asesinar a sus vecinos tutsis junto con aquellos hutus que intentasen protegerlos. De este modo daba comienzo el mayor genocidio de las últimas décadas. En los cien días que transcurrieron hasta que el Frente Patriótico Ruandés, la guerrilla tutsi, puso fin a la masacre haciéndose con el control del país, murieron 800.000 personas según los cálculos más conservadores, casi 10.000 al día, 400 a la hora, 7 por minuto; la mayoría de ellas a machetazos, el arma preferida. En este extraordinario reportaje -un clásico del periodismo contemporáneo- Philip Gourevitch emprende un viaje al corazón de las tinieblas para indagar en los motivos de tan atroz baño de sangre. Su prosa lúcida e inteligente desenmascara la pasividad de la comunidad internacional, que asistió paralizada a semejante carnicería, prefiriendo no asumir riesgos frente a un país que hasta el momento había sido modélico y que no tenía petróleo ni riquezas que ofrecer. El resultado, tras varios viajes por Ruanda y centenares de entrevistas y conversaciones con víctimas y verdugos, es esta sobrecogedora narración -ganadora de numerosos premios internacionales como el Guardian First Book Award, el National Book Critics Circle Award, el George Polk Book Award y el Los Angeles Times Book Prize-, que no dejará indiferente a ningún lector. Reseñas: «Inquietantemente bello y brillante, este es un libro asombrosamente bueno. Debería estar en las estanterías para siempre.» Tom Engelhardt, The Philadelphia Inquirer «El libro más importante que he leído en muchos años [...] Gourevitch examina el genocidio en Ruanda con humildad, ira, dolor y un nivel extraordinario de inteligencia política y moral.» Susie Linfield, Los Angeles Times «Gourevitch tiene la mente de un investigador combinada con la capacidad de observación de un buen novelista, y escribe como los ángeles. Este libro lo convierte en un igual de Michael Herr, Ryszard Kapuscinski y Tobias Wolff. Creo que no existe límite sobre lo que debemos esperar de él.» Robert Stone «Una crónica aleccionadora, reveladora y profundamente reflexiva.» The Boston Globe «Este absorbente relato debería ser de lectura obligada para aquellos investigadores del funcionamiento interno de los estados modernos.» The Washington Post

Un caso freddo

release date: Jan 01, 2002

La ballata di Abu Ghraib

release date: Oct 15, 2013
La ballata di Abu Ghraib
La storia delle fotografie di Abu Ghraib e di chi le ha scattate: soldati mandati in Iraq come liberatori che si ritrovano a fare i carcerieri nella peggiore prigione di Saddam e a perpetrare le stesse violenze e torture che avrebbero dovuto combattere. Gourevitch e Morris ci dànno il resoconto, obbiettivo e agghiacciante, dei compromessi, dei silenzi, delle giustificazioni che hanno reso l''orrore tollerabile, quasi banale. Ascoltando le voci che raccontano è impossibile non domandarsi: com''è potuto succedere che simili abusi siano apparsi normali? Dove sono finiti la coscienza individuale e l''ovvio riconoscimento della dignità umana?

La balada de Abu Grhaib

release date: Sep 22, 2011
La balada de Abu Grhaib
Una lúcida reflexión sobre la guerra de Iraq a partir de las humillantes fotos tomadas en la cárcel de Abu Ghraib.

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que, demain, nous serons tués avec nos familles

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que, demain, nous serons tués avec nos familles
Au printemps 1994, un massacre programmé décima, avec une rapidité stupéfiante, la République du Rwanda. Avec des moyens rudimentaires (à la machette, principalement), près d''un million de personnes furent exécutées en à peine cent jours, sur une population initiale de sept millions et demi d''habitants. Envoyé sur place comme reporter par le New Yorker, un an après le drame, Philip Gourevitch s''est fait l''historien dramaturge de ce génocide perpétré par les Hutu contre les Tutsi. C''est à travers des centaines de témoignages, comme autant de fables édifiantes, et donc par la voix des Rwandais eux-mêmes qu''il révèle peu à peu la mécanique fatale, mise en place à l''époque coloniale, dont résultent ces conflits ethniques. Pièce par pièce, il démonte cette " fabrique du génocide ".

Die Geschichte von Abu Ghraib

release date: Jan 01, 2009

Queremos informarle de que mañana seremos asesinados junto con nuestras familias

release date: Jan 01, 1999

Wir möchten Ihnen mitteilen, daß wir morgen mit unseren Familien umgebracht werden.

release date: Jan 01, 1999
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