Harsh times

Author

Mario Vargas Llosa

Call Number

• FICTION VARG (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First American edition.

Languages

Translated from the Spanish.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Physical Description

288 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--

Notes

"Originally published in Spanish in 2019 by Alfaguara Ediciones, Spain, as Tiempos recios"--Title page verso.