On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Victor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout Buenos Aires’s shantytowns for his success as a thief, commitment to a code of honor, and generosity to his community, Frente became a Robin Hood–style legend who, in death, was believed to have the power to make bullets swerve and save gang members from shrapnel. In Dance for Me When I Die-first published in Argentina in 2004 and appearing here in English for the first time-Cristian Alarcon tells the story and legacy of Frente’s life and death in the context of the everyday experiences of love and survival, murder and addiction, and crime and courage of those living in the slums. Drawing on interviews with Frente’s friends, family, and ex-girlfriends, as well as with local thieves and drug dealers, and having immersed himself in Frente’s neighborhood for eighteen months, Alarcon captures the world of the urban poor in all of its complexity and humanity.
Cristian Alarcon
Dance for Me When I Die [PDF ebook]
Dance for Me When I Die [PDF ebook]
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Dil İngilizce ● Biçim PDF ● ISBN 9781478004417 ● Çevirmen Nick Caistor & Marcela Lopez Levy ● Yayımcı Duke University Press ● Yayınlanan 2019 ● İndirilebilir 3 kez ● Döviz EUR ● Kimlik 6920796 ● Kopya koruma Adobe DRM
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