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Peru’s beauty has been a real curse

13 March 2021

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13 March 2021

9:00 AM

Wars of the Interior Joseph Zárate, translated by Annie McDermott

Granta, pp.208, 12

As the planet gets more and more ravaged, the mind can begin to glaze over at the cumulative general statistics — so much rainforest lost, so many glaciers melted, so much less oil left. Joseph Zárate’s masterly new book reminds us that when it comes to fighting on the front line of the environmental wars, it’s all in the detail, and that nothing is quite as simple as might at first appear.

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