The new novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize in Literature. A story of political conspiracies and conflicting interests during the Cold War. A lie that passed for truth and changed the destiny of Latin America. «Was history such a fantastic distortion of reality?» Guatema...
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The new novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize in Literature. A story of political conspiracies and conflicting interests during the Cold War. A lie that passed for truth and changed the destiny of Latin America. «Was history such a fantastic distortion of reality?» Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and sponsored by the United States through the CIA overthrows the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act lies a lie that passed for truth and changed the destiny of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower government that Árbenz was encouraging the entry of Soviet communism into the continent. Tiempos recios is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests, in the years of the Cold War, whose echoes resonate to this day. An event that involved several countries and in which some executioners ended up becoming victims of the very plot they had helped to build. In this exciting novel, which connects with the acclaimed La Fiesta del Chivo, Mario Vargas Llosa fuses reality with two fictions: that of the narrator who freely recreates characters and situations, and that designed by those who wanted to control the politics and economy of a continent by manipulating its history. |
Editorial: ALFAGUARA Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 360 Empastado: Tapa Blanda Idioma: ES |
