by Mario Vargas Llosa · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466355445
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Tiempos recios is a novel by the renowned author Mario Vargas Llosa, set in Guatemala in 1954. The plot revolves around the military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas, with the support of the United States through the CIA, which overthrew the government of Jacobo Árbenz. The novel explores the political conspiracies and conflicting interests during the Cold War, revealing how a lie became truth and changed the course of Latin America. In this exciting story, Vargas Llosa merges reality with fiction, showing how some executioners become victims of the plot they helped build.
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".
