{"product_id":"torn-from-the-world-a-guerrillas-escape-from-a-secret-prison-in-mexico-9780872867529","title":"Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called \u003ci\u003eTzompaxtle\u003c\/i\u003e, although in English it has another title, \u003ci\u003eTorn from the World\u003c\/i\u003e. The author is John Gibler, a real outlaw.\"--Diego Enrique Osorno, author of \u003ci\u003eEl Cartel de Sinaloa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndres Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. Abducted off the street, blindfolded and beaten, he was brought to a Mexican military facility and \"disappeared.\" Tzompaxtle, a young member of an insurgent guerrilla movement, was subjected to months of interrogation and torture as the military tried to extract information from him. In an effort to buy time to protect his family and comrades, and to keep himself alive, he lead his captors on fruitless journeys to abandoned safe-houses and false rendezvous locations for four months. Finally, faced with imminent execution, he decided to make what he thought was a suicidal attempt at escape; when he miraculously survived, he was able to return underground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGleaned from years of clandestine interviews, Tzompaxtle's story offers a rare glimpse into chronic injustice, underground resistance movements, and the practice of forced disappearance and torture in contemporary Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At once harrowing and humane, John Gibler's wonderful new book shines a light on the darkest corners of the Mexican justice system. We cannot turn away from what we see there. This is a brave, daring book, equal in every way to the extraordinary life it documents.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Alarcon\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe King is Always Above the People\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Once in a long while a brilliant writer happens on a story he was born to tell--a story that in its stark and unremitting horror gives us a glimpse of the world as it is, unvarnished and unredeemed. John Gibler is such a writer and \u003cem\u003eTorn From the World\u003c\/em\u003e is such a story. A wrenching, astonishing tale, brilliantly told.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eMark Danner\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Massacre at El Mozote\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eTorn from the World\u003c\/em\u003e is the product of a thorough investigation and it is written with rage and humility at the same time. This is the work of one of the most important journalists of our time.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eYuri Herrera\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John Gibler's powerful recounting of the forced disappearance of Andres Tzompaxtle Tecpile unearths the brutal machinery of state-sanctioned torture and terrorism in Mexico today. This book must provoke an outcry.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eSujatha Fernandes\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCurated Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not since Rodolfo Walsh's classic \u003cem\u003eOperation Massacre\u003c\/em\u003e have I read a work of political and literary journalism as inventive and urgent as John Gibler's \u003cem\u003eTorn from the World.\u003c\/em\u003e With courage, empathy, and clear-sightedness, Gibler tackles questions most journalists won't go near.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eBen Ehrenreich\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The North American journalist John Gibler not only presents here the guerrilla combatant's story, but also contextualized it within the broader, very troubled history of class relations in Guerrero and the contemporary proliferation of human rights abuses in Mexico, from Ayotzinapa to Ciudad.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eJesse Lerner, \u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eThe Shock of Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eMexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTo Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e20 poemas para ser le?dos en una balacera\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eI Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa\u003c\/em\u003e. His work on Ayotzinapa has been published in \u003cem\u003eCalifornia Sunday Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, featured on NPR's \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/em\u003e, and praised by \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50846298800402,"sku":"9780872867529","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e3eeb5de-a607-403f-b171-b5ccf8b4921d.jpg?v=1737361864","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/torn-from-the-world-a-guerrillas-escape-from-a-secret-prison-in-mexico-9780872867529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}