{"product_id":"i-couldnt-even-imagine-that-they-would-kill-us-an-oral-history-of-the-attacks-against-the-students-of-ayotzinapa-paperback","title":"I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Gibler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAriel Dorfman\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChosen as a Best Book of 2017 by \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities disappeared, killed, and injured scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJournalist Gibler's investigative prowess yields a book that uses a chorus of voices--eyewitness accounts of the students and others at the scene--to add depth and clarity to the Sept. 26, 2014, massacre of students in the city of Iguala, Mexico, that left six people dead, 40 wounded, and 43 students missing who have yet to be seen since. It's an unforgettable reconstruction of a national tragedy.\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, Best of 2017, Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter nine months of intensive research for a book on the case of the forty-three, Gibler decided that 'what needs to be shared, urgently, are both the words and the storytelling of the people who lived through the attacks.' . . . The testimonies in \u003cem\u003eI Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us \u003c\/em\u003eoffer stunning evidence again and again that members of the army, as well as local and state police, helped carry out the attack.\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e . . . valuable oral history . . .\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mexico, John Gibler's book has been recognized as a journalistic masterpiece, an instant classic, and the most powerful indictment available of the devastating state crime committed against the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students in Iguala. This meticulous, choral recreation of the events of that night is brilliantly vivid and alive, it will terrify and inspire you and shatter your heart.--\u003cstrong\u003eFrancisco Goldman\u003c\/strong\u003e, writer for \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn September 26, 2014, police in Iguala, Mexico attacked five busloads of students and a soccer team, killing six people and abducting forty-three students--now known as the Iguala 43--who have not been seen since. In a coordinated cover-up of the government's role in the massacre and forced disappearance, Mexican authorities tampered with evidence, tortured detainees, and thwarted international investigations. Within days of the atrocities, John Gibler traveled to the region and began reporting from the scene. Here he weaves the stories of survivors, eyewitnesses, and the parents of the disappeared into a tour de force of journalism, a heartbreaking account of events that reads with the momentum of a novel. A vital counter-narrative to state violence and impunity, the stories also offer a testament of hope from people who continue to demand accountability and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Gibler\u003c\/strong\u003e lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eTorn from the World\u003c\/em\u003e, \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. His work on Ayotzinapa has been published in \u003cem\u003eCalifornia Sunday Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and praised by \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTorn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt \u003c\/i\u003e(City Lights, 2009), \u003ci\u003eTo Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War \u003c\/i\u003e(City Lights, 2011), \u003ci\u003e20 poemas para ser leídos en una balacera \u003c\/i\u003e(Sur+, 2012), and \u003ci\u003e Tzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero \u003c\/i\u003e(Tusquets, 2014). 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