Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
 

Silence On The Mountain: Stories Of Terror, Betrayal, And Forgetting In Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

by Daniel Wilkinson

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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... (read more)

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Still smack in the middle of this one... So far, this is a well told narrative from the point of view of a traveling student who tries to unravel the mystery of a burned coffee plantation house and in the process reveals the details of Guatemala's history, long civil war, sociopolitical environment, economy, etc.

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