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Summary: a great college book!
Review: This is a great book! hard to put down account of the different layers of silence and terror lived by Guatemalans during the past 100 years. It's a wonderful book to be discussed in a class on Latin American or Social Studies, English and Comparative Literature.
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Summary: A WHOLE POPULATION LIVING IN FEAR
Review: This is a textbook of the history of Guatemala during the 60's through the 80's of a specific geographical area that probably applied to the whole country. Fear is the overriding force that each citizen of Guatemala lived with during these times. Over 200,000 people (not the military) were killed ... the supporters of the army and/or guerilla side. You learn of what happens when a dictator is the ruler of a country and/or the military has all the political control of a country. It is horrible and upsetting. This book will help you appreciate the U.S.A. with all of it's flaws. Thank God I was born in the United States of America.
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Summary: A WHOLE POPULATION LIVING IN FEAR
Review: This is a textbook of the history of Guatemala during the 60's through the 80's of a specific geographical area that probably applied to the whole country. Fear is the overriding force that each citizen of Guatemala lived with during these times. Over 200,000 people (not the military) were killed ... the supporters of the army and/or guerilla side. You learn of what happens when a dictator is the ruler of a country and/or the military has all the political control of a country. It is horrible and upsetting. This book will help you appreciate the U.S.A. with all of it's flaws. Thank God I was born in the United States of America.
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Summary: Unmasked story of social injustice
Review: Wilkerson's novel unravels an untold story about the indigenous people in the countryside of Guatemala where social injustices and atrocities have become reoccuring events without much or any intervention. What once began as an interesting project that Wilkerson began became an eye opening experience for both the author and the reader. The marginalized throughout history have been both ignored and forgotten, but through this novel their experience has been magnified to show the world that they too are people. Caught between a brutal war these people attempt to do the impossible, live. Wilkerson provides binoculars through his novel to see the history of the indigenous people in Guatemala in the most genuine and humane manner possible. The deaths and blood of Guatemalans has only fattened the pockets of foreign investors for years proving that global consumers prefer to see the ends rather than the means. The silenced few in this tale speak loudly through their bloody past and unknown future.
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