Sociology.
Travel.
Nonfiction.
"Harrowing....The graceful, incisive writing lifts "The Beast" from being merely an impressive feat of reportage into the realm of literature. Mr. Mart�nez has produced something that is an honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier" or Jacob Riis's "How the Other Half Lives.".
"The most extraordinary (and harrowing) book I read this year. Beautiful and searing and impossible to put down.".
"The world that Oscar Mart�nez, a Salvadoran journalist, set out to report on five years ago is so violent, depraved and hellish, you can hardly believe he survived to tell the tale... rugged prose, beautifully translated.".
"Mart�nez is a powerful storyteller and his approach to investigative journalism is closer to anthropological immersion: He walks with migrants through bloody forests, eats with them at spartan shelters, and rides with them atop speeding trains.".
"The Beast, like so many great books, lands on you with a revelatory frisson, the arrival of a story we didn't know we were waiting to hear.".
"... Mart�nez's debut is the hard-won result of immersive journalism.".
"This searing account of the hardships suffered by Central American migrants headed through Mexico to the United States comes from true shoe-leather reporting.".
"To understand the dramatic realities faced by the migrants who flee northwards to find work in the United States, �scar Mart�nez literally jumped trains and dodged killers. He deserves praise not only for his efforts, and for what he writes about, but because he writes so very well.".
"A heartbreaking book about the world's most invisible people. A revelatory work of love and hair-raising courage.".
"�scar Mart�nez is a journalist of uncommon bravery and a writer of prodigious talent. The Beast is a powerful, necessary book, one of the finest pieces of journalism to emerge from Latin America in years.".
HTML:One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. �scar Mart�nez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are
kidnapped.
Mart�nez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the
border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes.
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