{"product_id":"harsh-times-9781250858955","title":"Harsh Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the democratic government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie that will have drastic consequences for the entire region: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration, determined to protect American commercial interests in Central America, that Árbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarsh Times\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, echoes of which still reverberate today. In this thrilling novel, the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa invents vivid characters who go to the heart of the dilemmas of Guatemala's history in a deeply textured blending of fact and fiction that is his alone. Not since \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of the Goat\u003c\/i\u003e, his classic novel about the downfall of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, has Vargas Llosa combined political intrigue and suspense so compellingly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250858955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"Mario Vargas Llosa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42406025953461,"sku":"9781250858955","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_572e4994-ac51-4f76-a706-af05141b5e79.jpg?v=1664285269","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/harsh-times-9781250858955","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}