The book is the story of Segundo, a man who spends his life trying to find the true meaning of God and how he needs to live. "I think our job as journalists is at least the way I see it is this effort to understand how people live because living is just so hard," she says. The author also talks about her love for Jorge Luis Borges' novel 'A Man Walks on Mars'
Graciela Mochkofsky is a writer for The New Yorker and dean of CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. She has written six nonfiction books in Spanish. Her new book, her first in English, is The Prophet of the Andes.
“It connects with me as a journalist, actually — it’s this idea of just seeking truth and how elusive that is. So this is a person who thinks he can get to the true meaning of God and of how he needs to live. And he thinks that by asking the right questions, and by reading, and reading, and reading, and by discussing collectively, he can get to the truth. And he can’t.”
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