by Mario Vargas Llosa · Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781644731048
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«Tiempos recios» is the historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in hardback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Guatemala, 1954: a coup by Carlos Castillo Armas backed by the CIA overthrows Jacobo Árbenz. The excuse was accusing him of opening the door to Soviet communism, a lie that marked Latin America. The novel interweaves the facts with two fictions: the one recreated by the narrator and the one devised by those who wanted to manipulate history.
The work is related to «La Fiesta del Chivo», also by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
