Books by Miguel Angel Asturias (5)
1.
El papa verde by Miguel Angel Asturias ES
Country: North America / 
Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
"Segundo volumen de la ""Trilogia bananera""."
2.
El señor presidente. Edición Conmemorativa / The President. A Commemorative Edition by Miguel Angel Asturias ES
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Edición conmemorativa de la obra maestra de Miguel Ángel Asturias, Premio Nobel de Literatura. Escrita entre 1920 y 1933 y publicada en 1946, El señor presidente es uno de los máximos exponentes de la llamada «novela del dictador» en la que se encuadran otras obras fundamentales como Yo el Supremo, de Roa Bastos, Tirano Banderas, de Valle-Inclán, El otoño del patriarca, de Gabriel García Márquez, o más recientemente, La Fiesta del Chivo, de Mario Vargas Llosa. En ella, Asturias se inspira en el último gobierno de Manuel Estrada Cabrera, en Guatemala, para explorar los mecanismos que hacen func... continue
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Legenden aus Guatemala by Miguel Angel Asturias DE
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
Die schönsten Legenden von Miguel Angel Asturias, Nobelpreisträger von 1967, sind in diesem Band gesammelt. Sie sind ein Stück Ethnologie, eine einzigartige Symbiose aus Maya-Mythologie, Kindheitserinnerungen und erzählerischer Phantasie.
4.
Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President’s visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar A Penguin Classic 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 l... continue
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Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias EN
Country: North America / Guatemala
Guatemala
Description:
“[A] brilliant translation . . . Electrifying vividness animates every page.” ―Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine “A formidable new English translation.” ―The New Yorker “[A] masterful translation.” ―The Washington Post Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa Also available from Penguin Classics: Miguel Ángel Asturias’s visionary epic of ecological devastation... continue