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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country Hardcover - 2023

by Evangelista, Patricia

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Random House, 2023. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good hardcover in like jacket. Very minor bump to front top corner board and jacket. Very minor to foot of spine and jacket. Else, a tight and clean copy.
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  • Title Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
  • Author Evangelista, Patricia
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 4th Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House
  • Date 2023
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 013668
  • ISBN 9780593133132 / 0593133137
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 5.9 x 1.6 in (23.88 x 14.99 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Philippines - Politics and government - 21st, Extrajudicial executions - Philippines
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023019108
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.409

From the publisher

TIME'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A "riveting" (The Atlantic) account of the Philippines' state-sanctioned killings of its citizens under President Rodrigo Duterte, hailed as "a journalistic masterpiece" (The New Yorker)

"Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story."--Tara Westover, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Educated

WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, CrimeReads, The Mary Sue

"My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long."

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
is Evangelista's meticulously reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines' drug war. For six years, Evangelista documented the killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of Duterte's war on drugs--a crusade that has led to the slaughter of thousands--immersing herself in the world of killers and survivors and capturing the atmosphere of terror created when an elected president decides that some lives are worth less than others.

The book takes its title from a vigilante, whose words demonstrated the psychological accommodation many across 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 a brilliant dissection of the grammar of violence and an investigation into the human impulses to dominate and resist.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/2023, Page 10
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 10/13/2023, Page 1
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/28/2023, Page 0

About the author

Patricia Evangelista is a trauma journalist and former investigative reporter for the Philippine news company Rappler. Her reporting on armed conflict and disaster was awarded the Kate Webb Prize for exceptional journalism in dangerous conditions. She was a Headlands Artist in Residence, a New America ASU Future Security Fellow, and a fellow of the Logan Nonfiction Program, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Her work has earned local and international acclaim. She lives in Manila.