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Harsh Times

Harsh Times

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Harsh Times is a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa that explores the effects of a CIA-supported military coup in Guatemala in 1954, which passed off a lie as truth and changed the development of Latin America. The book is a drama of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, and is written in a style that is both ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 03 November 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber



The New Novel from the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature


A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever. Financial Times 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. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, 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.

Weight: 250g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571365692
Edition number: Main

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