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📱 eBook en inglés MAGNETIZED

Conversations with a Serial Killer

Catapult- 9781948226691

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Sinopsis de MAGNETIZED

NPR, One of the Best Books of the Year

A “chilling but fascinating portrait” of a serial killer and “a must-read for true crime fans” who enjoyed My Dark Places, The Stranger Beside Me, or I’ll Be Gone In the Dark (Buzzfeed)

One of Argentina’s most innovative writers brings to life the story of a teenager who murdered four taxi drivers in 1982 Buenos Aires—without any apparent motive.

Over the course of one ghastly week in September 1982, the bodies of 4 taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires, each murder carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant: a 19–year–old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. But the crimes themselves were not: 4 murders, as exact as they were senseless.

More than 30 years later, Argentine author Carlos Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno, the serial killer, in prison. Their conversations return to the nebulous era of the crimes and a story full of missing pieces. The result is a book at once hypnotic and unnerving, constructed from forensic documents, newspaper clippings, and interviews with Melogno himself. Without imposing judgment, Busqued allows for the killer to describe his way of retreating from the world and to explain his crimes as best he can. In his own words, Melogno recalls a visit from Pope Francis, grim depictions of daily life in prison, and childhood remembrances of an unloving mother who drove her son to Brazil to study witchcraft. As these conversations progress, the focus slowly shifts from the crimes themselves, to Melogno’s mistreatment and misdiagnosis while in prison, to his current fate: incarcerated in perpetuity despite having served his full sentence.

Using these personal interviews, alongside forensic documents and newspaper clippings, Busqued crafted Magnetized, a captivating story about one man’s crimes, and a meditation on how one chooses to inhabit the world, or to become absent from it.

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Editorial: Catapult

ISBN: 9781948226691

Idioma: Inglés

Fecha de lanzamiento: 02/06/2020


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Escrito por Carlos Busqued


Carlos Busqued (Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina, 1970 - Buenos Aires, 2021). Produjo los programas de radio Vidas Ejemplares, El otoño en Pekín y Prisionero del Planeta Infierno. Colaboró en la revista El Ojo con Dientes. Su primera novela, Bajo este sol tremendo, fue finalista Premio Herralde 2008, mientras Magnetizado fue premiada en la XXV edición de los premios literarios San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca (2019).

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