Miss Narco (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Javier Valdez Cárdenas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2010

This hard-hitting book both a chronicle and a journalistic piece seeks to rescue the numerous women who stand beside their drug lords, from silence, the scandal sheets, and oblivion. Lovers, friends, companions, family members, the world of these women is made up of passion and pain, of glamour and beauty. Miss Narco is the shocking tale of a group of women who live at the fringes of the law, of violence, and death. <P> Spanish Description: <P> Las mujeres en el narcotrafico: suenos de belleza y sangre. <P> Impactante libro que va de la cronica al reportaje periodistico para rescatar del silencio, de la nota roja y del olvido a numerosas mujeres que estan al lado de los hombres que se dedican al narcotrafico: amantes, amigas, companeras, familiares, mujeres que tienen una verdad ardiente y dolorosa, mujeres que buscan el glamour y la hermosura, mujeres que viven en el limite de la ley, de la violencia y la muerte, sin duda, un libro estremecedor.

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About the Author

Javier Valdez Cardenas nacio en Culiacan, Sinaloa, en 1967. Corresponsal del diario La Jornada desde 1998 y fundador del periodico semanal Riodoce. Sus textos han sido publicados en revistas como Emeequis. Es autor del libro de cronicas De azoteas y olvidos, coautor de El Gabo en Sinaloa, editado por la Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, y autor de la antologia de cronica La letra en la mirada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Aguilar; 1st edition (March 15, 2010)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 6071103010
• ISBN-13: 978-6071103017
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #947,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting reading June 29, 2011

By JustMe

Format:Paperback

I bought and read this book in Mexico (the Spanish edition) and found it very interesting. It has less history and narco-details than other books that have been written, and is more the story of how several different women got involved in the narco-life. I really enjoyed reading the book...truth that reads like fiction. The writer did a good job of not presenting these women too sympathetically, effectively showing how greed and narcissism (and sometimes love) can lead girls into this kind of life.

5.0 out of 5 stars The dark world of narcotics trafficking from women's perspectives... May 1, 2013

By America Reads Spanish

Format:Paperback

"Mexican journalist Javier Valdéz Cárdenas offers women's perspectives on the dark and consuming world of narcotics trafficking. Based on a series of interviews, Valdez's vignettes are all at once engrossing, poignant and frightening." This is as reviewed in "The New Essential Guide to Spanish Reading" which is published by America Reads Spanish: a campaign aimed to increase the use and reading of the Spanish language through the thousands of libraries, schools and book stores in the US.