Book : Men Of Maize - Asturias, Miguel ngel

-Titulo Original : Men Of Maize

-Fabricante :

Penguin Classics

-Descripcion Original:

A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize-winning author of Mr. Presidents visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Hector Tobar A Penguin Classic Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans-the men of maize-serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturiass lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed.