This is a novel born of two worlds. Set in Guatemala in the 1980s, during the military regime's tyranny, it is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocratic Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with an orphan sent to live with the family as a maid.

Long Night of White Chickens

FRANCISCO GOLDMAN

Literature & Fiction

Faber&Faber

Set in Guatemala in the 1980s, this is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in Boston by his aristocratic Guatemalan mother, and of his relationship with Flor, the beautiful Guatemalan orphan who is the family's maid. When Flor is murdered, Roger returns to recover the truth about her death.

The Long Night of the White Chickens

Contemporary

The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle

GROVE PRESS

<p>This debut novel was greeted by overwhelming and unequivocal praise. "Goldman's beautiful first novel is at once a story about a boy growing up in two cultures, a love story, and a mystery about an unsolved murder."--The Boston Globe. Author reading tour.</p>

The Long Night of White Chickens

Atlantic Monthly Pr

Coming off the most successful book of a decorated career—Say Her Name—The Interior Circuit is Francisco Goldman's timely and provocative journey into the heart of Mexico City. The Interior Circuit is Goldman's story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife's death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores and celebrates the city, which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills and violence wracking Mexico. This is the chronicle of an awakening, both personal and political, "interior" and "exterior", to the meaning and responsibilities of home. Mexico's narco war rages on and, with the restoration of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI) to power in the summer's 2012 elections, the DF's special apartness seems threatened. In the summer of 2013, when Mexican organized crime violence and death erupts in the city in an unprecedented way, Goldman sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the city now faces. By turns exuberant, poetic, reportorial, philosophic, and urgent, The Interior Circuit fuses a personal journey to an account of one of the world's most remarkable and often misunderstood cities.

Interior Circuit, The

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and disappearances of some 200,000 civilians. Realizing that it could not rely on police investigators or the legal system to solve the murder, the church formed its own investigative team, a group of secular young men in their 20s who called themselves Los Intocables (the Untouchables). Known in Guatemala as "The Crime of the Century," the Bishop Gerardi murder case, with its unexpectedly outlandish scenarios and sensational developments, confounded observers and generated extraordinary controversy. In his first nonfiction book, acclaimed novelist Francisco Goldman has spoken to witnesses no other reporter has reached, and observed firsthand some of the most crucial developments in the case. Now he has produced The Art of Political Murder, a tense and astonishing true detective story that opens a window on the new Latin American reality of mara youth gangs and organized crime, and tells the story of a remarkable group of engaging, courageous young people, and of their remarkable fight for justice.

Art of Political Murder, The

Say Her Name

Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. But instead he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain. Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe - and always through the prism of her gifted writings-Goldman seeks her essence and grieves her loss. Humour leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of utte

Grove

The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

ATLANTIC BOOKS *

This is a true detective story tracing the murder investigation of a human rights activist and Guatemalan bishop, with the plot twists and colourful characters of a Graham Greene novel. It is shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. On a Sunday night in 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death. Two days earlier, a Church-sponsored report had implicated Guatemala's government in the disappearances of 200,000 civilians. The Church, feeling that it could not rely on the legal system, took the controversial decision to assemble a team of men, Los Intocables (The Untouchables), to take down Gerardi's killers. In a gripping reconstruction, worthy of Graham Greene, Francisco Goldman traces Los Intocables struggle with the Guatemalan authorities to reveal the true story, uncovering the involvement of youth gangs, political corruption and organised crime. Most of all, he tells the story of an extraordinary group of courageous people and their fight for justice.

The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2010] Francisco Goldman

True Crime

Le matelot

ECRITURE

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