The Pear Tree

Estoy que reviento de la emoción y el orgullo. Eric, con quien somos amigos desde hace más de 20 años, acaba de publicar su último libro, The Pear Tree: Is Torture Ever Justified?

Parece mentira, pero soy amigo casi de toda la vida de un publishing author. ¿Qué me cuentan? Además de un publishing author, siempre quise ser amigo de un millonario. Espero que no me defraude (chiste, por si le esto). Me acuerdo de tantos almuerzos en los que me tenía podrido hablando de este proyecto y especulando sobre cuándo lo publicarían. Bueno, acá esta. Ahora necesitamos algo nuevo para temar. Él propone el peronismo.

Les dejo una pequeña reseña biográfica, para que aprendan:

Eric Stener Carlson is a recognized expert in human rights and the study of torture, with many years experience working for international organizations. He has investigated mass sexual assault for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, exhumed and identified bodies of “the disappeared” in Argentina as a Fulbright scholar, and assessed prison conditions of alleged terrorists throughout Peru as a free-lance expert. His publications include I Remember Julia:Voices of the Disappeared, and articles in The Lancet, and The British Journal of Criminology. Carlson holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia

Sobre el libro:

Late one night, Eric Stener Carlson sat down to review witness statements of torture victims splayed across his desk... and so this book began. It takes us on a journey from the mass graves of Argentina, to the desolate slums of Peru, to the brutality of the Dominican Republic and the rape camps of the former Yugoslavia. As the scenery and actors change, three elements surface again and again, like worn rocks on the beach. The stranger we fear. The child who is kidnapped. And the torture we use to save her. It is here, at the desolate intersection of these elements, that Carlson asks the dreadful question, “Is torture ever justified?” Lyrical and haunting, The Pear Tree is a stark exposition of torturers and victims, and the witnesses who choose to support one side or the other.