Latinoland: For Book Clubs

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    Latinoland: Marie Arana introduces her new book

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    Latinos are our largest, oldest, most undercounted, fastest growing, and least understood communities. Prizewinning Marie Arana explains what they have meant to America and introduces her new book, Latinoland.

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    “Best Audiobooks About Latino Identity To Listen To”

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    Marie Arana’s work features heavily on this Audible audio books feature. Both the English and Spanish editions of Bolívar as well as Silver, Sword and Stone are celebrated as works that “find authors from the land of your ancestors and learn why reclaiming Latino heritage has become so popular worldwide”

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    Bolívar by Marie Arana: Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time

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    “…Marie Arana deftly chronicles his epic life with propulsive prose, including a killer first sentence: “They heard him before they saw him: the sound of hooves striking the earth, steady as a heartbeat, urgent as a revolution.””

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    Marie Arana Talks Silver, Sword, and Stone

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    Marie Arana’s Silver, Sword, and Stone takes the readers from pre-Columbian times through the region’s conquest, independence movements, dirty wars, and right down to the present. In doing so, the book explores three driving forces in the region’s history: mining—and particularly mining, violence, and religion through the tales of three contemporary Latin Americans. In this episode, the award-winning author tells AS/COA’s Carin Zissis why she wrote this sweeping history now.

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    ‘Pleasure, Obligation, Curiosity, Inspiration’: What’s on Marie Arana’s Nightstand

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    From the New York Times BY THE BOOK interview. Among other things, the author of “Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story” is reading a novel based on a juicy scandal in her own family. Read the full article at NYT (subscription required)

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    Politics and Prose: Review of Silver Sword and Stone

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    In Silver, Sword, and Stone Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion.

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    Previous Tour: Silver Sword and Stone

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    Dates and locations for the previous tour for Silver, Sword, and Stone.

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    Video: Marie Arana discusses her book Silver, Sword and Stone

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    Marie Arana on the Three Crucibles of Latin American History. Author and National Book Award finalist, Marie Arana, tells us about her newest book Silver, Sword, and Stone, a powerful narrative about the three enduring forces that have defined Latin America, and its people, since pre-Columbian times.

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    Silver, Sword, and Stone – New Book

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    Coming soon! Marie’s new book about Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story. Three ordinary Latin Americans against 1,000 years of history and why their stories are important to the world today. Coming on September 1, 2019. Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and…

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