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Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Prize winner and sole survivor of the Boom generation, turns now to Guatemala in this novel about the 1954 CIA-backed coup there that ousted President Árbenz and the assassination of his successor, Castillo Armas, three years later; it's thematically linked with his 2000 novel The Feast of the Goat. The series of alternate narrative sequences, a Vargas Llosa trademark, is glued together by M...Log In or Sign Up to Read More