Sangre joven
Javier Sinay

NON FICTION | 2009/2022 | 216 pages

WINNER OF THE 2010 RODOLFO WALSH PRIZE

Sangre joven collects stories where young people are both victims and assailants.

Federico was 20 years old when he was murdered by a 17-year-old young man: the tragedy was sparked by an adolescent femme fatale. Junior was in high school when he decided to shoot at his classmates, Andy recounts how she killed a guy at a dance in her diary, and she winds up in prison because of her words. A merry-go-round is the silent witness to a tragic story of love between two cousins. A 16-year-old serial rapist is killed by the bullets of a 20-year-old policeman. A young boy who has just become a millionaire can’t imagine the bloody trap that some friends have set for him. A trans girl serves a sentence for killing her mother and brother. Axel experiences the vertigo of the forbidden without knowing the danger that awaits him.

Published for the first time in 2009, Sangre joven collects stories where young people are both victims and assailants. With immersive prose, Javier Sinay doesn’t judge the protagonists, but rather accompanies them and attempts to understand them in all their dimensions: their unrequited affections, social and familial pressures, their bewilderment when they find themselves before a reality that becomes horrific. “A homicide exposes both the person that commits it and the victim, but also the society where it comes from,” he writes in this updated edition. An impactful book that has become a reference point for Latin American journalism.

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