Patricia Evangelista


Some People Need Killing

A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista | SOME PEOPLE NEED KILLING : A Memoir of Murder in My Country


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780593133149

Biografiska reportage om politisk historia. Utgiven av Penguin Random House USA, häftad, 448 sidor.

  • Dokumenterar mord kopplade till Duterte-regeringens politik.

  • Analyserar makt och människovärde i ett våldsamt samhälle.

  • Utgiven i häftad format av Penguin Random House USA.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Penguin Random House USA
ISBN: 9780593133149

Omfång: 448 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-04

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TIME´S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Patricia Evangelista´s searing account is not only the definitive chronicle of a reign of terror in the Philippines, but a warning to the rest of the world about the true dangers of despotism—its nightmarish consequences and its terrible human cost.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, N

TIME’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

“Patricia Evangelista’s searing account is not only the definitive chronicle of a reign of terror in the Philippines, but a warning to the rest of the world about the true dangers of despotism—its nightmarish consequences and its terrible human cost.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain

“Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story.”—Tara Westover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Educated
 
“A journalistic masterpiece”—David Remnick, The New Yorker
 
For six years, journalist Patricia Evangelista documented killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of then president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs—a crusade that led to the slaughter of thousands—immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of terror created when an elected president decides that some lives are worth less than others.
 
The book takes its title from the words of a vigilante, which demonstrated the psychological accommodation many across the country had made: “I’m really not a bad guy,” he said. “I’m not all bad. Some people need killing.”
 
A profound act of witness and a tour de force of literary journalism, Some People Need Killing is a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an investigation into the human impulses to dominate and resist.
 
WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE AND THE MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, CrimeReads, The Mary Sue


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Boken handlar om de brutala konsekvenserna av den filippinska regeringens krig mot droger och utforskar våld och despotism i Filippinerna.

Teman i boken inkluderar rättsväsendets roll i legitimt våld, den psykologiska och sociala dynamiken bakom våldet samt de mänskliga kostnaderna av despotism.

Boken är utgiven av Penguin Random House USA, har ISBN 9780593133149, består av 448 sidor, är på engelska och utgavs den 4 mars 2025 i häftat band.

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