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2007 Llueve sobre Gaza (Rain on Gaza)
On June 25, 2006, an assault group from the Popular Resistance Committees crossed through a tunnel from the Gaza strip to Israel. After emerging, they killed two soldiers who were in a tank on the Israeli military post of Kerem Shalom, and abducted a third soldier: corporal Gilad Shalit.
This is the beginning of the exciting visual narration of Hernán Zin, a first-line witness to the terrible aftermath of the abduction of the Israeli soldier. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert started the so-called Summer Rain Operation that subjected a million and a half persons living in the Gaza strip not only to a series of military attacks, but also to the systematic destruction of infrastructure and a ferocious economic embargo. Llueve sobre Gaza is a serious report of such an unfair massive punishment, including the testimony of Israeli important persons such as Gideon Levy and Amira Hass.
From an extremely harsh reality where confusion, desolation and perplexity rein, Hernán Zin depicts life during war and gives us a portrait of anguish for destruction, horror for death and the unbearable pain of the Palestinian people.
In a subject where truth is many times hidden by economic and political interests, Hernán Zin expresses himself with absolute honesty and courage, without making concessions, to describe the situation in Gaza at its worst historical time, besieged by hunger, death and despair. Paradoxically, one year after the departure of Israeli colonists.
As with his previous books, this work by this young journalist, one of the most prestigious of the Spanish press, will leave no one indifferent. |
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2005 La libertad del compromiso (Freedom of Commitment)
Is it possible to change the world? In a globalized society, is it possible to help the poorer and mitigate social inequality? These questions are answered in this book through the human, personal and vital experience of seven people: José María in Africa, Fabiola in Tibet, Alan in Argentina, and Urmi, Alison and David in India. They all have left behind their respective countries and comfortable lives to help others, outside big organizations, with personal, modest projects. And, besides helping, it turns out that they are happier and feel useful.
Here they teach us how to face life in a different way, inspiring us with their courage, showing us the possibilities we all have of committing. It shows us, finally, that it is possible to change your life that, as stated by Rosa Regas in the last part of the book, makes you a mutilated man and “one day you will be under a starry sky and you will be unable to see it”.
Some important voices of our society adhere to this reflection, such as those of Fernando Savater, Ramiro Calle, Concha García-Campoy, Pilar Bardem, Javier García Sánchez, Carlos Taibo and Dominique Lapierre. Analysis and testimonies are brought together in a book written to leave no one indifferent.
A book for all those who feel committed and raise the flag of freedom. Because, as expressed by Fernando Savater in his text, “Free people do not ask themselves what is going to happen but what they are going to do”. |
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2003 Helado y papa fritas (Ice Cream and French Fries)
There is nothing worse than to abuse of an innocent, a child, who does not know that the man who buys him ice cream and French fries and gives him coins to buy food for his family is ruining his life. Hernán Zin has discovered several cases of pedophilia in Cambodia and found evidence to bring some of such men to court.
In Helado y patatas fritas real stories are told where children open their hearts and pedophiles offer their testimonies. They are Europeans travelling to third-world countries to fulfill their fantasies with four and five year old boys: “Poor boys that have no knowledge of moral, who I help with money,” confesses one of them.
Now Zin has launched a campaign against child abuse in the third world, collecting signatures and filing reports with the European Parliament and Interpol. He has also shot a documentary describing these facts that will be aired in several TV networks. |
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2002 Un voluntario en calcuta (A Volunteer in Calcutta)
"I admire the poor. Their capacity to struggle, their resistance, their dignity in times of pain. Neither before nor after being in Calcutta have I worshiped Mother Teresa, but I thank her for one thing: for the wonderful opportunity she gave me. Without requiring any qualification or preparation from me, she opened the doors of experience that would change my life forever.”
With these words, Hernán Zin, a volunteer in the city of poverty during three intense years, begins his first book. The images of the train station that will never leave his memory, the terrible stories of people sleeping on the streets - smiling abandoned children, sick old people, women driven crazy by hunger and violence-, and his honest reflections deriving from his humanitarian work are documented on these pages with which he tries to build a bridge between us here, on this side of the planet, and those who live in the kingdom of nothing.
Life teachings that force us to look around differently, without losing hope that some day a better world is possible.
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