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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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• Plný název: Silence on the Mountain
• Podnázev: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
• Autor: Daniel Wilkinson
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 392
• EAN: 9780822333685
• ISBN: 0822333686
• ID: 04938015
• Nakladatelství: Duke University Press
• Hmotnost: 536 g
• Rozměry: 226 × 171 × 21 mm
• Datum vydání: 20. August 2004

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