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The true story of Guatemalas political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the democratic government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie that will have drastic consequences for the entire region: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration, determined to protect American commercial interests in Central America, that Árbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, echoes of which still reverberate today. In this thrilling novel, the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa invents vivid characters who go to the heart of the dilemmas of Guatemalas history in a deeply textured blending of fact and fiction that is his alone. Not since The Feast of the Goat, his classic novel about the downfall of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, has Vargas Llosa combined political intrigue and suspense so compellingly.Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individuals resistance, revolt, and defeat. He has also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking worlds most distinguished literary honor. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Adrian Nathan West is a novelist, an essayist, and a translator based in Spain. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, McSweeneys, and many other publications. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and the novel My Fathers Diet.Book specifications:Dimensions: 213 x 145Author: Mario Vargas LlosaCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2022Publishing Month: 11Pages: 304Language: EnglishPublisher: Picador USAWeight: 363 g
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