Frutos extraños
Leila Guerriero

NON FICTION | 2020 | 526 pages

A revised and expanded edition of the collected columns from one of the best Spanish-language journalists.

"Journalism can and should use every narrative resource to create a perfect distillate, if possible: the essence of the essence of reality."

A woman capable of murdering three friends by putting cyanide in a cup of tea, another who killed her daughter minutes after giving birth, a magician who is missing a hand, a rock group whose most famous member has Down syndrome, a shoeshine boy who ended up becoming an essential Latin American music figure. As the author asserts, there is nothing "sexier, fiercer, more outrageous, ambiguous, gloomy, or beautiful than reality."

In this revised and expanded edition of Strange Fruits, Leila Guerriero reveals the most sensitive, vigorous, and pulsating side of a profession that is going through difficult times and works the miracle of making us believe in journalism again. The columns collected in this book, written between the years 2001 and 2019, constitute a masterful lesson in journalism: present the world from a unique, intense and distinctive perspective, and have the ability to knock the reader out.

RIGHTS: spanish ALFAGUARA | german ULLSTEIN

BY LEILA GUERRIERO:

La llamada
NONFICTION, 2024
Zona de obras
ESSAYS, 2014/2022
La otra guerra
NON FICTION, 2021
Frutos extraños
NON FICTION, 2009/2020
Teoría de la gravedad
ESSAYS, 2019
Opus Gelber
NON FICTION, 2019
Plano americano
NON FICTION, 2013/2018
Una historia sencilla
NON FICTION, 2013
Los suicidas del fin del mundo
NON FICTION, 2004