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Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were "disappeared") at the hands of the U.S.-backed military goverment. In 1993 Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker, begins to investigate the arson of a coffee plantation's manor house by a band of guerrillas. The questions surrounding this incident soon broaden into a complex mystery that compels Wilkinson to seek out an impressive cross-section of the country's citizens, from coffee workers to former guerrillas to small-town mayors to members of the ruling elite. From these sources he is able to piece together the largely unwritten history of thelong civil war, following its roots back to a land reform movement derailed by a U.S.-sponsored military coup in 1954 and, further back, to the origins of Guatemala's plantation system, which put Mayan Indians to work picking coffee beans for the American and European markets. Silence on the Mountain reveals a buried history that has never been told before, focusing on those who were most affected by Guatemala's half-century of violence, the displaced native people and peasants who slaved on the coffee plantations. These were the people who had most to gain from the aborted land reform movement of the early 1950s, who filled the growing ranks of the guerrilla movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and who suffered most when the military government retaliated with violence. Decades of terror-inspired fear have led Guatemalans to adopt a survival strategy of silence so complete it verges on collective amnesia. Wilkinson's great triumph is that he finds a way for people to tell their stories, and it is through these stories -- dramatic, intimate, heartbreaking -- that we come to see the anatomy of a thwarted revolution that is relevant not only to Guatemala but to any country where terror has been used as a political tool.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618221395
ISBN-13
9780618221394
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2247068

Product Key Features

Book Title
Silence on the Mountain : Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
Author
Daniel Wilkinson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / Central America, Latin America / South America
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
F1466.7.W55 2002
Edition Description
Teacher's Edition
Reviews
[Wilkinson] combines the probity of a serious historian with the literary instincts of a crime writer . . . a delight to read., "Profound . . . both easy to read and compelling . . . given the powerful subject matter and how well it is told." Publishers Weekly "An extraordinary tale, and an extremely well-told one . . . he has given us a rare and intimate understanding." -- Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che: A Biography "Enthralling, moving, completely original . . . put this up there with Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You . . . A brilliant and important book." -- Francisco Goldman, author of The Ordinary Seaman "[Wilkinson] combines the probity of a serious historian with the literary instincts of a crime writer . . . a delight to read." The Nation "A beautiful, harrowing, and comprehensive narrative history." Salon, "Enthralling, moving, completely original . . . put this up there with Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You . . . A brilliant and important book."-- Francisco Goldman, author of The Ordinary Seaman, "An extraordinary tale, and an extremely well-told one . . . he has given us a rare and intimate understanding." -- Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che: A Biography, Profound . . . both easy to read and compelling . . . given the powerful subject matter and how well it is told.
Table of Content
CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix I. A HOUSE BURNED the owner 3 the student 7 the battlefield 11 exhumation 19 II. ASHES FELL rumor 29 travelogue 32 natural history 42 bildungsroman 48 revelation 56 decree 65 III. A FUTURE WAS BURIED a dangerous question 83 the law that would change the world 157 betrayal 168 burials 180 IV. AND THEY WERE THE ERUPTION the savages 193 sacuchúm 199 the guerrillas 217 the politicians 252 the terrorists 307 the defeated 337 the storytellers 350 List of Names 361 Note on Sources 362 Selected Bibliography 369
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-075936
Dewey Decimal
972.8105/2
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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