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Penguin Classics follows its reprint of Asturias's debut political novel, Mr. President, with the Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author's 1949 masterpiece about the existential struggle between rapacious Westerners and their Ladino collaborators, intent on dominating and exploiting natural resources, and Native peoples who experience and participate in nature as a sacred whole. Asturias was inspired to recast French surrealism through Mayan myth and tradition and set the narrative in Gua...Log In or Sign Up to Read More