Harsh Times

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever."
Financial Times

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

Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, 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.

CASTIGATOR AL PREMIULUI NOBEL IN LITERATURA ,,O carte extrem de placuta; Vargas Llosa, in varsta de 85 de ani, este la fel de ascutit si de amuzant ca intotdeauna." Financial TimesGuatemala, 1954. O lovitura militara sustinuta de CIA rastoarna guvernul.