Week-End en Guatemala. by Asturias, Miguel Angel:

NEW ~ Near Fine. 245 pp. EN ESPANOL / IN SPANISH 9 oz.Subjects: LITERATURA LITERATURE NOVELA NOVEL HISTORY HISTORIA GUATEMALA NARRATIVA 20THC

[Havana]: Imprenta Nacional de Cuba, 1960. Paperback. 194p., wraps lightly worn and soiled, top corner of front wrap dog-eared, blank sticker on half-title, else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Collection of short stories. Ediciones Especiales III.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1968. Rústica. Usado - Muy bueno. Omar Di Nardo. premio, novel, cuentos, relatos 233 páginas. Ilustró la cubierta Omar Di Nardo. Colección Novelistas de Nuestra Época. Dos vertientes alimentan la obra de Miguel Ángel Asturias, el primer novelista hispanoamericano distinguido con el Premio Nobel de Literatura: la realista y la mágica, el compromiso con una realidad social que se denuncia y se procura modificar, y la conciencia de las raíces mitológicas del hombre centroamericano. Si a la primera podemos adscribir su trilogía bananera" (Viento fuerte

Editorial Piedra Santa, 2006-01-01. Reprint. Paperback. Used:Good.

Editorial Piedra Santa, 2006-01-01. Reprint. Paperback. Good.

España: LOSADA, 1968. Paperback. De 2ª mano - muy bueno. WEEK-END EN GUATEMALA DE ASTURIAS, MIGUEL ANGEL. ED. LOSADA, 1968, IDIOMA: CASTELLANO MARCAS DE USO EN LAS CUBIERTAS-RESTO BUEN ESTADO, TAPA BLANDA, IDIOMA: CASTELLANO, 1968, TÍTULO: WEEK-END EN GUATEMALA DE ASTURIAS, MIGUEL ANGEL.

Buenos Aires: Goyanarte. (1956). A novel based on the US-backed overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954 -- a Cold War-related move against a left-leaning nationalist government that did much to set the stage for the next three decades of tensions between the U.S. and the various Central American republics. Asturias, for his open criticism of Yanqui interventionism, was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1966 -- the highest such honor conferred in the old U.S.S.R. The following year--in what may be construed as a battle for the hearts and minds of his constituency -- he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the West's highest international honor. A major novel by one of the most important writers of the postwar era, whose ability to integrate indigenous myths and social protest was a major accomplishment that helped shape the contemporary Latin American novel. Abrasions to front flyleaf and front cover; ink marks to three pages of text; some wear to top edge and creasing to spine;… Read More