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Salvador

By Joan Didion

By Joan Didion

By Joan Didion

By Joan Didion

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.00

Apr 26, 1994 | ISBN 9780679751830

Ebook $9.99

Jan 05, 2011 | ISBN 9780307787361

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    About Salvador

    “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.

    About Salvador

    “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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    About Joan Didion

    JOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion… More about Joan Didion

    About Joan Didion

    JOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion… More about Joan Didion

    Product Details

    Category: Latin American World History | Literary Collections | Politics

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 26, 1994 | 112 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679751830

    Category: Latin American World History | Literary Collections | Politics

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 05, 2011 | 112 Pages | ISBN 9780307787361
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    Praise

    “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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