Silence on the Mountain

Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala

Autor: Daniel Wilkinson

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Duke University Press

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Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing...

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Autor

Daniel Wilkinson

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2004

strony

392

EAN

9780822333685

ISBN

0822333686

Enbook ID

04938015

Wydawca

Duke University Press

Waga

536

Wymiary

171 x 226 x 21

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Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were "disappeared") at the hands of the U.S.-backed military government. Written by Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker, the story begins in 1993, when the author decides to investigate the arson of a coffee plantation's manor house by a band of guerrillas. The questions surrounding this incident soon broaden into a complex mystery whose solution requires Wilkinson to dig up the largely unwritten history of the country's recent civil war, following its roots back to a land reform movement that was derailed by a U.S.-sponsored military coup in 1954 and to the origins of a plantation system that put Guatemala's Mayan Indians to work picking coffee beans for the American and European markets. Decades of terror-inspired fear have led the Guatemalans to adopt a survival strategy of silence so complete it verges on collective amnesia. The author's great triumph is that he finds a way for people to tell their stories, and it is through these stories--dramatic, intimate, heartbreaking--that we are shown the anatomy of a thwarted revolution that has relevance not only to Guatemala but to countless places around the world where terror has been used as a political tool.

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