Salvador

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ISBN-10: 0679751831
ISBN-13: 9780679751830
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 04/26/1994
Dimensions: 8.32" L, 4.86" W, 0.31" H

Salvador

byJoan Didion

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Overview

“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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Reviews

"No one has interpreted the place better.... Salvador shines with enlightening observation, and its language is lean and precise, in short what we have come to expect from Ms. Didion." –The New York Times Book Review

"[Didion has] the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian [as well as] a novelist's appreciation for the surreal. . . . Her clarity of style illuminates the vast darkness that engulfs El Salvador." –Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Everything [Didion] writes grows out of close observation of the social landscape of El Salvador. And it is quite impossible to deny the artistic brilliance of her reportage. She brings the country to life so that it ends up invading our flesh." –The New York Times

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Details

ISBN-10: 0679751831
ISBN-13: 9780679751830
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 04/26/1994
Dimensions: 8.32" L, 4.86" W, 0.31" H
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