Harsh Times

Harsh Times
Author :
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374601249
ISBN-13 : 0374601240
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Harsh Times by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book Harsh Times written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Árbenz. 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 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, the echoes of which are still felt today. In this thrilling novel, Mario Vargas Llosa fuses reality with two fictions: that of the narrator, who freely re-creates characters and situations, and the one designed by those who would control the politics and the economy of a continent by manipulating its history. Harsh Times is a gripping, revealing novel that directly confronts recent history. No one is better suited to tell this riveting story than Vargas Llosa, and there is no form better for it than his deeply textured fiction. Not since The Feast of the Goat, his classic novel of the downfall of Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic, has Vargas Llosa combined politics, characters, and suspense so unforgettably.


Harsh Times Related Books

Harsh Times
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Mario Vargas Llosa
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-23 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Hard Times
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Charles Dickens
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1854 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Such Hard Times
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Yingwu Wei
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Presents one hundred fifty poems in Chinese and English translation by a classic eighth-century Chinese poet little known in the West, with explanatory notes ac
Good Economics for Hard Times
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Abhijit V. Banerjee
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-12 - Publisher: PublicAffairs

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how t
The Wealth Paradox
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Frank Mols
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book presents compelling evidence of the 'wealth paradox', where economic prosperity can also fuel prejudice, social unrest, and intergroup hostility.