by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420435718
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«Tiempos recios» is the historical and political novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Guatemala in 1954, the novel recreates the military coup with which Carlos Castillo Armas, backed by the CIA, overthrew the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Vargas Llosa blends reality and fiction to show how the accusation of encouraging Soviet communism made by Eisenhower became a lie that changed the course of Latin America in the midst of the Cold War.
It belongs to Alfaguara's Hispánica collection and was awarded the Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year.
For readers aged 16 and over interested in historical and political fiction about Latin America and in the narrative of Mario Vargas Llosa.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
