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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING MASTER OF FICTION – THE TRUE STORY OF GUATEMALA’S POLITICAL TURMOIL OF THE 1950S.

GUATEMALA, 1954.
A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, a fiction which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power had encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas.

In HARSH TIMES, Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage. Not since the Nobel Prize-winner’s The Feast of the Goat have politics, characters and suspense been combined in such masterful fiction. Gripping and provocative; ironic and sensual: this is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting Cold War interests – the echoes of which are still felt today.

‘Vargas Llosa has remarkable gifts. He demonstrates the superabundant vitality of the Latin American imagination in its most challenging form.’
– SUNDAY TIMES