Men of maize
Asturias, Miguel Angel2025
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Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans - the 'men of maize' - serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Angel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed.
Main title:
Men of maize / Miguel Ángel Asturias.
Author:
Asturias, Miguel Angel, authorMartin, Gerald, 1944-, translator
Edition:
New edition / foreword by Hector Tobar ; introduction and translation by Gerald Martin.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2025.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9780143138402 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
4995317
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