Bibliograph

Harsh times, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West

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Harsh times, Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Harsh times

Responsibility statement

Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West

Summary

Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct

Target audience

adult

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