MURDER CITY: CIUDAD JUAREZ AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY’S NEW KILLING FIELDS

Book ID/图书代码： 00500010B35201

English Summary/英文概要： Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed—a number that is on pace to increase in 2009.

In Murder City, Charles Bowden—one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juárez—has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants—a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life—with a broader meditation on the town’s descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juárez’s culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north.

Heartbreaking, disturbing, and unforgettable, Murder City establishes Bowden as one of our leading writers working at the height of his powers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 华雷斯位于墨西哥与美国德克萨斯州交界处，它曾是墨西哥北部边境的繁荣都市，而现在却成为世界上暴力犯罪最严重的城市。它曾因妇女失踪案而臭名昭著，而在这人口140万的城市里，日均发生7起谋杀案。据统计，自2006年12月卡尔德龙政府上任以来，当年因为有组织犯罪和贩毒造成的谋杀案为178起，2007年上升至2673起，而2009年增加至6525起。华雷斯的犯罪率已经超过了伊拉克首都巴格达。
本书的作者查尔斯鲍登是少数长时间居于华雷斯的记者之一，他将居民的生活穿插在一起，生动形象地描绘了这个秩序几近崩溃的城市：一个遭到强奸的选美冠军、一个心存忏悔的杀手、一个渴望逃离生活的记者。随着华雷斯逐渐陷入无政府状态，这个城市的暴力继续恶化，并开始向北部蔓延……(Ruby)

Awards/获奖情况：“Bowden uses his tremendous talents to tell a haunting, darkly poetic story of a city’s horrifying descent into madness and anarchy…A potent book that readers won’t soon forget”---Kirkus Reviews, starred review (
查尔斯以他非凡的才能为我们讲述了一个陷入疯狂和无政府状态的城市。这本书令人难忘。---科克斯评论)

“Charles Bowden is a great writer. MURDER CITY is proof. The work is non-fiction. It reads like a dream.”---William Langewiesche, International Correspondent, Vanity Fair (查尔斯鲍登是一名出色的作家，《谋杀之都：华雷斯》就是一个很好的证明。这是一本纪实类文学作品，它读起来就像一场梦。---威廉朗格维舍，《名利场》国际记者)

About the Author/作者介绍： Charles Bowden is the author of many books, including A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior (2005, Harcourt); Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family (2003, Simon & Schuster); Blues for Cannibals (2002, North Point; Albin Michel (France) 2012); Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future (1998, Aperture), and Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America (1995, Random House; Albin Michel (France) 2011). Inferno (2006, University of Texas Press), with photographer Michael Berman, was a finalist for the Orion Book of the Year for 2007. His most recent book is Exodus (2008, University of Texas Press), with photographer Julian Cardona (The University of Texas Press will publish Trinity, with Michael Berman, the third of the photo book trilogy, in 2009).
He is a contributing editor for GQ magazine, and his work appears regularly in Harper’s, Mother Jones, and National Geographic. A Pulitzer Prize Nominee, winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.
查尔斯鲍登是GQ杂志的一名特别编辑，他的文章也经常出现在《国家地理》等知名杂志上。查尔斯曾获普利策奖提名，他也是兰南文学奖纪实类得主、悉尼希尔曼基金获得者。现居亚利桑那州图森。他的作品还包括：A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family等等

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