"Larga Distancia" is a classic of chronicles in Spanish: a book that changed the way of thinking about the relationship between journalism and literature. The travel stories gathered in this volume are the result of that pleasure that consists in "turning the supposedly neutral gaze of the reporter into a capricious eye." Caparrós' gaze knows how to find the eloquent detail, the tiny scene that says it all, and in each case he manages to make us accomplices in that revelation. Whether it is the struggles of the Bolivian coca growers or the Peruvian guerrillas, the tours of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the decline of Moscow, or the complicated ties between religion and power in Haiti, writing is, like life, a voyage of discovery. For these chronicles, the author won the King of Spain Prize for journalism.