
Harsh Times
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Ian Guerra
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 recreates 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. No one is better suited to tell this riveting story than Vargas Llosa, and there is no form better for it than his deeply textured fiction. Not since The Feast of the Goat, his classic novel of the downfall of Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic, has Vargas Llosa combined politics, characters, and suspense so unforgettably.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Compelling story, moving performance
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Confusing
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Very gripping story
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harsh tale
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nice portral - bad reading
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AUDIBLE...please add more Mario Vargas Llosa titles in English!!!!!
An Incredible (but frighteningly true) Story
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Fave author, non-fave book
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