Verde tierra calcinada

In 2014 the author, a freelance reporter, travelled with the photojournalist Federico Ríos to seven Colombian municipalities on assignment for a reconciliation project, to meet people who had lived with the war at their doorstep. The crónicas that grew from those journeys over four years, each named after a town, tell of victims' grief and of attempts at reconciliation in a country where land can count for more than the lives of the people on it. Between them, reflective passages return to Bogotá, from where the conflict looks remote, and weigh the moral cost to a reporter of asking victims to relive their pain.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Genres

War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Colombia

First published

2018 by Rey Naranjo Editores

Author's age

41 when first published