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Silence on the Mountain

Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala

Pocket
Engelsk
American Encounters/Global Interactions
Silence on the Mountain
Silence on the Mountain
  • Forfatter: Daniel Wilkinson
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 392
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: American Encounters/Global Interactions
  • EAN: 9780822333685
  • Utgivelsesår: 2004
  • Bidragsyter: Wilkinson, Daniel
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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 Am