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Cabeza de Serpiente: Una Epopeya Oscura En Chinatown / The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
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Cabeza de Serpiente: Una Epopeya Oscura En Chinatown / The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream - Paperback

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by Patrick Radden Keefe (Author)

**Mejor libro del a?o seg?n Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle y la American Library Association**

**Finalista del Gold Dagger Award en categor?a de no ficci?n y del Lukas Prize de la Facultad de Periodismo de Columbia**

«Una historia compleja, narrada con tanto talento y gusto por el misterio y los giros de guion que por momentos se lee como una novela de John le Carr? . -The Washington Post

«Una mezcla de El Padrino y Chinatown, aderezada con tiroteos, una mafiosa despiadada y una gran monta?a de dinero. Con la salvedad de que todo aqu? es real . -Time

Patrick Radden Keefe nos introduce en Cabeza de serpiente en el mundo subterr?neo del tr?fico de personas. El primero de los hilos de esta historia nos lleva al incre?ble periplo del Golden Venture, el barco que embarranc? en la pen?nsula de Rockaway, cerca de Nueva York, en la madrugada del 6 de junio de 1993, cargado con m?s de trescientos inmigrantes chinos sin documentaci?n, retransmitido en directo a casi todo el mundo.

En el centro de aquel suceso operaba una ins?lita criminal: una mujer de mediana edad y completamente anodina llamada Cheng Chui Ping que, desde la trastienda de un peque?o bazar en Chinatown, construy? a?o tras a?o un imperio multimillonario. El sue?o americano solo pod?a empezar bien si trabajabas con la Hermana Ping, la mayor «cabeza de serpiente de Estados Unidos, alguien capaz de organizar el pasaje de miles y miles de compatriotas a cambio de peque?as fortunas.

Otros hilos de esta historia nos muestran guerras de bandas (entre las que destacaban los violentos miembros de la Fuk Ching), los circuitos del dinero negro hacia la provincia de Fujian, algunos fallos internos de las organizaciones estadounidenses -como el SIN- que vigilan las fronteras, o el FBI investigando durante d?cadas a los «cabezas de serpiente y sus infructuosos esfuerzos por detenerlos.

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In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a multi-million-dollar business smuggling people.

"Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it's all true." --Time

Keefe reveals the inner workings of Sister Ping's complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way, he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of illegal immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them. Grand in scope yet propulsive in narrative force, The Snakehead is both a kaleidoscopic crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America.

Author Biography

Patrick Radden Keefe (Boston, 1976) es periodista en plantilla de The New Yorker y autor de varios libros de no ficci?n: Chatter (2006), Cabeza de serpiente (2009), No digas nada (2019, merecedor del National Book Critics Circle Award y del Orwell Prize), El imperio del dolor (2021, ganador del Baillie Gifford Prize) y Maleantes (2022). Ha publicado art?culos en The New York Times Magazine, Slate y The New York Review of Books. En 2014 recibi? el National Magazine Award en la categor?a de cr?nica por «Una escopeta cargada? (incluida en Maleantes) y fue finalista del mismo premio en la categor?a de reportaje en los a?os 2015 y 2016. Asimismo, es creador y narrador del podcast en ocho cap?tulos Wind of Change (2020).

Number of Pages: 472
Publication Date: February 18, 2025

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