Martin Caparros

"An up-to-the-minute global investigation of famine and the persistent issues the keep most of the world hungry. By one of Latin America's most famous and formidable journalists comes a book for the ages. In HUNGER, award-winning author Martin Caparros.

The Oldest Problem

Hunger

El Interior

25,000 men, women, and children die every day from hunger or malnutrition around the world. And yet, food is not lacking: in fact, it is in abundance, as the planet strains under the effect of overproduction. How can we resolve this paradox? This is the question that Mart�n Caparr�s explores in this urgent and important book by giving a voice to people suffering from the crisis, as well as those striving to alleviate it. Above all, Caparr�s is determined to uncover the mechanisms that result in almost one billion people starving while others become obese. Hunger is a crucial, passionate, and deeply empathetic book, committed to exposing the scale of this universal crisis and seeking insightful solutions.

Sinfín es una distopía hiperbólica que orbita alrededor de la gran obsesión humana: la inmortalidad. Una novela en la que el escritor y periodista argentino Martín Caparrós combina lo mejor de la escritura periodística y la ficción. El error es el cuerpo. Morir es fallar. En 2070, una forma nueva de la vida eterna se ha convertido en el mayor logro de nuestra civilización. La palabra china pronunciada tsian -paraíso- es el invento que la gran Samar ofreció al mundo y que ha transformado las vidas y las muertes de miles de millones. Pero más allá de lo que cuenta la mitología oficial nadie conoce su verdadera historia. Sinfín empieza en un pequeño pueblo de la selva patagónica, un lugar remoto detenido en el tiempo donde la enfermedad, la vejez y la muerte existen todavía. Allí se inicia la búsqueda de la mujer que desvelará la verdadera historia: los sacrificios humanos silenciados, los intereses ocultos y las circunstancias que propiciaron el salto más sorprendente de la técnica humana en un mundo que, mientras tanto, se deshace en guerras religiosas y migraciones sin fin. Sinfín no es una novela sin ficción sino una ficción sin novela. Es el relato fidedigno de algo que todavía no terminó de suceder: una historia fascinante y reveladora contada a la manera de las mejores crónicas, pensada al modo de los mejores ensayos, que ofrece los datos menos conocidos, las hipótesis más atrevidas, los análisis definitivos sobre aquel golpe de genio que terminaría por cambiar el mundo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Endless is an amplified dystopia that orbits around the great human obsession: immortality. A novel in which the Argentine writer and journalist Martin Caparros combines the best of journalistic writing and fiction. The actual error is the body. If you die, you failed. In 2070, a new form of eternal life has become our civilization's greatest achievement. The Chinese word pronounced tsian - paradise - is the invention that the great Samar offered to the world. But beyond what official mythology states, no one really knows its true story. Endless begins in a small town in the Patagonian jungle, a remote place frozen in time where disease, old age, and death still exist. That's where the search begins for the woman who will reveal the true history: hushed human sacrifices, hidden interests, and the circumstances that led to the most surprising leap in human manipulation in a world that, at the same time, is unraveling in religious wars and endless migrations. Endless is the trustworthy account of something that has not yet happened: a fascinating and revealing story told in the way the best accounts are told, offering the least known data, and the most daring hypotheses about that stroke of genius that would end up changing the entire world as we know it.

Sinfín / Endless

Juan Gelman

Jose Feinmann

Buena Memoria

Marcelo Brodsky

La Historia

On August 22, 1911, the world was shocked by an audacious crime: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. Although some people suspected subversive artists like Picasso or Apollinaire of perpetrating the theft, no arrests were made. Two years later, an Italian named Vincenzo Perugia was detained after attempting to sell the Mona Lisa to an antiques dealer in Florence -- but the mystery of the theft itself was never satisfactorily resolved. In his spellbinding novel Valfierno, Martín Caparrós tackles this enigma, presenting us with a fascinating criminal unable to go to his grave without divulging the details of his outrageous heist. In tantalizing conversations with an American journalist, the Marqués de Valfierno sheds light on his past secrets, including his sordid origins as Bollino, son of a Buenos Aires servant woman, a man ultimately transformed into the most notorious con artist in the world. A sly and consummate entertainer, Valfierno reveals the shifting identities of the anonymous Argentine boy who has gone on to become a veritable artist, creating for himself the perfect role of wealthy aristocrat in Belle Époque Paris as he prepares for his crime. Featuring an engaging cat-and-mouse drama and unforgettable characters, Valfierno is a brilliant fictional-ization of the greatest theft of the twentieth century, as well as a compelling psychological portrait of a true mastermind. Valfierno, Caparrós's eighth novel, won the prestigious Premio Planeta award in 2004.

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