Weekend in Guatemala (1956)

by Miguel Ángel Asturias

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Critical edition of the novel written by the Guatemalan Nobel. It is a fictional chronicle about the short war that ended the government of Jacobo Arbenz and imposed the dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas in 1954.

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En samling noveller som handlar om hur livet i Guatemala förändrades för enskilda personer under och strax efter militärkuppen i landet 1954. En kupp som f ö stöddes av CIA.
Jag gillar att Asturias ger oss inblickar i vanliga människors öden, och jag lärde mig mycket om Guatemala. Men lite för blommigt språk använder han, nobelpristagare som han är. Ibland ser man inte skogen för alla träden, och poängerna går mig ett par gånger förbi.
Läsvärt, men jag hade hoppats på något ännu intressantare. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Miguel Ángel Asturias	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Alin, Karin	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Seeberg, Axel S.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Loomingu Raamatukogu 1959

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Weekend in Guatemala | The Mirror of Lida Sal by Miguel Ángel Asturias

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Weekend in Guatemala

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WEEK-END en GUATEMALA

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1956

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Till GUATEMALA mitt fosterland, levande i sina studenter-hjältar, sina bönder-martyrer, sina offrade arbetare och sitt kämpande folk

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Han lyfte från golvet den kroppsdel som kallas fot och som man alltid glömmer, hakade fast den med klacken vid en av tvärslåarna på taburetten som snurrade framför med hela hans person som en satellit och kastade sig bakåt över diskens kant, denna oändliga horisont, nött och åter nött av otaliga suparhänder;

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Critical edition of the novel written by the Guatemalan Nobel. It is a fictional chronicle about the short war that ended the government of Jacobo Arbenz and imposed the dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas in 1954.

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