“Terror is the given of the place.” The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion “brings the country to life” ( The New York Times ), delivering an anatomy of a particular brand of political terror—its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, Didion interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb “to disappear.” Here, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.
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Salvador
By: Joan Didion
ISBN-10: 0679751831
ISBN-13 : 978-0679751830
Publisher : Vintage; Reprint edition (April 26, 1994)
Language : English
Paperback: 112 pages
Reading Age : None
Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.35 x 8.05 inches
Item Weight : 4.3 ounces
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