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Harsh Times
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa
Subgenres:
- Historical Thriller,
- Cold War,
- Guatemala 1954
This book is for you if you're into...
- Cold War-era coups and real-life political intrigue in Latin America
- Fiction that blurs the line between history and storytelling
- Stories exposing the power of propaganda and international manipulation
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.
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