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Harsh Times - Llosa, Mario Vargas, and West, Adrian Nathan (Translated by)
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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 democratic government of Jacobo �rbenz. 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 �rbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the ...

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Harsh Times 2022, Picador USA, New York

ISBN-13: 9781250858955

Trade paperback

Harsh Times 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

ISBN-13: 9780374601232

Hardcover