Algo nuestro sobre la tierra

When Peru reached the highest mortality rate from covid-19 in the world, Joseph Zárate accompanied a group of men and women in charge of carrying out the difficult funeral work for the victims of the pandemic. Along with these people from the "last line" of resistance against the scourge of the virus, the author of these pages toured houses, streets, hospitals, funeral agencies, crematoriums, and cemeteries in Lima to show the shocking experience of those who made the final journey possible. of the dead in the midst of a scenario of fear, mourning and uncertainty. Something of ours on earth gathers these testimonies and melts them into a communal song of loss and desolation. A chorus that emerges from the bowels of a country devastated by the plague and the abandonment of its institutions. Its pages remind us of the fragile bond with life and the desire that, in the words of its author, "when we look back, we meditate on what we, those of us who remain alive, must do today."