Hunger

A surprising, unique, violent, and necessary book. Caparrós's writing has a memorable power. "The World of Hunger" is a book built from the stories of people who work in extremely precarious conditions to mitigate hunger, of those who use food as a means of financial speculation, causing hunger in many people. To understand and narrate this hunger, Martín Caparrós traveled to India, Bangladesh, Niger, Kenya, Sudan, Madagascar, Argentina, the United States, and Spain. In these countries, he encountered people who, for various reasons—droughts, poverty, wars, marginalization—are going hungry. "The World of Hunger" seeks, above all, to unravel the mechanisms that prevent nearly a billion people from eating what they need. Both disturbing and passionate, it is a thought-provoking chronicle, an essay that reports, and a pamphlet that denounces the pressure of an incessant shame.