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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1538701502
ISBN-13
9781538701508
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18066541437
Product Key Features
Book Title
When We Sold God's Eye : Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Indigenous Studies, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), World / Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / South America
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
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1.1 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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Trade
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2024-024690
Reviews
"A devastating portrait of the toll that human rapacity exacts on individual lives...At the heart of Cuadros's lush, textured epic, layered with a range of recognizable emotions and human motivations both foul and fair, is an indictment of colonization itself."-- The New Republic, "A remarkable feat of research embedded in vivid and compelling prose, When We Sold God's Eye unveils the story of the once-isolated Cinta Larga people, whose lives and culture are transformed--at the hands of Western prospectors and conflicting government regulations--within the incomprehensible speed of a single generation. Bursting with wild, chaotic clashes of human values and exposing profound greed, corruption, violence, courage, survival, and the everyday contradictions within us all, When We Sold God's Eye offers us new levels of understanding of Western society's relationship to our earth and to cultures vastly different from our own. A must read, simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-filling."-- Susan Southard, author of Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, "An essential story, built on deep and empathetic reportage. A hugely impressive piece of work."-- Sophie Elmhirst, author of Maurice and Maralyn, "Fascinating.... The quandaries play out on an intimate scale thanks to the details Cuadros gleaned in extensive interviews with Pio and his peers. This book has the pace of a novel and the whodunit suspense of investigative journalism."-- Foreign Policy, "So powerful...Cuadros, an American reporter who spent years living and working in Brazil and speaks fluent Portuguese, found the perfect man and incident to tell this achingly tragic story. And unlike so many others, he tells it from the point of view of the Indigenous people themselves, at a scale small enough to hold in your hand."-- Washington Post, "Of all the indigenous peoples contacted in the Amazon in the past century, the Cintas Largas ('Broad Belt') people of south-western Brazil suffered terribly from the discovery of gold and diamonds in their rivers, with the resulting settler invasion with fatal diseases and a massacre. But these were the only group that retaliated - by killing many wildcat miners, in 2004, and themselves learning how to prospect profitably. Alex Cauadros spent years culturally imbedded with all these people, and tells their tragic but exciting story. He achieves the remarkable feat of understanding and sympathizing with both sides' attitudes, cultures and motives, told by a vibrant cast of real people. "-- John Hemming, author of The Conquest of the Incas and People of the Rainforest, " When We Sold God's Eye is an extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, telling the gripping and astonishing story of how a small group in the Amazon, invaded and brutally treated by white settlers and miners, retaliated through killing and violence, and ended up exploiting an illicit diamond mine themselves. This is a complex and tragic story, deeply reported and beautifully written by Alex Cuadros--a remarkable literary achievement. I highly recommend this book."-- Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, "Stone Age people encounter the modern world, with predictable results...An impassioned story."-- Kirkus, starred review, "A vibrant, in-depth, and eye-opening account of conflict in the Amazon with dire cultural and environmental consequences."-- Booklist
Synopsis
A CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS NONFICTION FINALIST The "gripping and astonishing story" (Douglas Preston) of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illegal diamond mine in the Amazon. Growing up in a remote corner of the world's largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, and gathered Brazil nuts and açaí berries from centuries-old trees. The first highway pierced through in 1960. Ranchers, loggers, and prospectors invaded, and the kids lost their families to terrible new weapons and diseases. Pushed by the government to assimilate, they struggled to figure out their new, capitalist reality, discovering its wonders--cars, refrigerators, TV sets, phones--as well as a way to acquire them: by selling the natural riches of their own forest home. They had to partner with the white men who'd hunted them, but their wealth grew legendary, the envy of the nation--until decades of suppressed trauma erupted into a massacre, bloody retribution that made headlines across the globe. Based on six years of immersive reporting and research, When We Sold God's Eye tells a unique kind of adventure story, one that begins with a river journey by Theodore Roosevelt and ends with smugglers from New York City's Diamond District. It's a story of survival against all odds; of the temptations of wealth and the dream of prosperity; of an ecosystem threatened by our hunger for resources; of genocide and revenge. It's a tragedy as old as the first European encounters with Indigenous people, playing out in the present day. But most of all, it's the moving saga of a few audacious individuals--Pio, Maria, Oita, and their friends--and their attempts to adapt and even thrive in the most unlikely circumstances.
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F2520.1.C64C83 2024
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