Summary
Fernanda Melchor: This is not Miami
In a time of unclear boundaries between truth and lies, chaos and order, horror and indifference, organized crime and the state, "This is not Miami" appears - a book that brings not only dry facts but also stories about people. About victims and criminals, yes, but above all about ordinary men and women who fight for survival. Setting the action in and around Veracruz, Fernanda Melchor delivers a series of poignant stories – based on real events – that meander between reportage and the author's rich, precise imagination. These chronicles or crónicas - a genre specific to Latin American literature, which combines investigative journalism, narrative journalism and storytelling - delve deeply into the motives of the heroes, examine their desires and circumstances, and make us understand them - and even sympathize with them - despite the desire to dismiss them as monsters. Through the masterful narration of Fernando Melchor, he once again reveals how violence and shocking news covering all the headlines are only the tip of the iceberg of a society on the brink of chaos.
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