
by Miguel Ángel Asturias · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420630885

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«El papa verde» is the novel by Miguel Ángel Asturias, published by Alianza in paperback (395 pages, in Spanish).
The novel revolves around a powerful banana businessman known as the Green Pope, whose ambition leads him to dominate lands and people in a Latin American country. With a style laden with symbolism, Asturias portrays the exploitation of foreign companies, political corruption, and the resistance of those who maintain their identity in the face of oppression.
The novel belongs to the Alianza Tres collection. This edition dates from 1982. Miguel Ángel Asturias won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967.
For readers of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, interested in social and political criticism.

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.
