Some People Need Killing - A Memoir of Murder in My Country

“Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story.”--Tara Westover, #1 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman Rodrigo Duterte. Some People Need Killing The book takes its title from a vigilante whose words seemed to reflect the psychological accommodation that most of the country had made: “I’m really not a bad guy,” he said. “I’m not all bad. Some people need killing.” A profound act of witness and a tour de force of literary journalism,< Some People Need Killing< is also a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an important investigation of the human impulses to dominate and resist....

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Evangelista
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2024
• EAN: 9780593734698
• ISBN: 978-0-593-73469-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education