Harsh Times

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Book Overview

The true story of Guatemala's 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 government of Jacobo rbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that rbenz encouraged the spread of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374601232
• ISBN13: 9780374601232
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"