{"product_id":"the-beast-isbn-9781781682975","title":"The Beast","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn\u003ci\u003e Economist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e“Best Book of the Year”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Wigan Pier\u003c\/i\u003e” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Martínez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, \u003ci\u003eThe Beast\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the \u003ci\u003enarcotraficantes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u0026amp; The Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harrowing … The graceful, incisive writing lifts \u003ci\u003eThe Beast\u003c\/i\u003e from being merely an impressive feat of reportage into the realm of literature. Mr. Martínez has produced something that is an honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Wigan Pier\u003c\/i\u003e or Jacob Riis’s \u003ci\u003eHow the Other Half Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most extraordinary (and harrowing) book I read this year. Beautiful and searing and impossible to put down.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Junot Díaz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The world that Oscar Martínez, a Salvadoran journalist, set out to report on five years ago is so violent, depraved and hellish, you can hardly believe he survived to tell the tale... rugged prose, beautifully translated.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Martínez is a powerful storyteller and his approach to investigative journalism is closer to anthropological immersion: He walks with migrants through bloody forests, eats with them at spartan shelters, and rides with them atop speeding trains.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Columbia Journalism Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Beast, like so many great books, lands on you with a revelatory frisson, the arrival of a story we didn’t know we were waiting to hear.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“… Martínez’s debut is the hard-won result of immersive journalism.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This searing account of the hardships suffered by Central American migrants headed through Mexico to the United States comes from true shoe-leather reporting.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“To understand the dramatic realities faced by the migrants who flee northwards to find work in the United States, Óscar Martínez literally jumped trains and dodged killers. He deserves praise not only for his efforts, and for what he writes about, but because he writes so very well.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Jon Lee Anderson, staff reporter for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A heartbreaking book about the world’s most invisible people. A revelatory work of love and hair-raising courage.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alma Guillermoprieto, Latin America correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDancing with Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Óscar Martínez is a journalist of uncommon bravery and a writer of prodigious talent. The Beast is a powerful, necessary book, one of the finest pieces of journalism to emerge from Latin America in years.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Daniel Alarcón, author of \u003ci\u003eAt Night We Walk in Circles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Forget the rhetoric, the politics, and the propaganda. The Beast is the real story of the drug war.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLithub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eÓscar Martínez\u003c\/b\u003e writes for ElFaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America. The original edition of his book \u003ci\u003eLos migrantes que no importan\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2010 by Icaria and El Faro and a second edition by Mexico’s \u003ci\u003esur+\u003c\/i\u003e Ediciones in 2012. Martínez is currently writing chronicles and articles for El Faro’s project, Sala Negra, investigating gang violence in Latin America. In 2008, Martínez won the Fernando Benítez National Journalism Prize in Mexico, and in 2009, he was awarded the Human Rights Prize at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University in El Salvador.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302780915941,"sku":"NP9781781682975","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781682975.jpg?v=1767738283","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-beast-isbn-9781781682975","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}