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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala Paperback / softback - 2004

by Daniel Wilkinson

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Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

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Paperback / softback. New. Author reconstructs the unwritten, taboo history of the Guatemalan civil war, focusing on the peasants who picked coffee, supported guerrilla movements of the 1970s and 1980s, and suffered the most when the military government retaliated with violence.
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  • Title Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala
  • Author Daniel Wilkinson
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham and London
  • Date 2004-08-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822333685
  • ISBN 9780822333685 / 0822333686
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.08 x 0.93 in (22.71 x 15.44 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004013070
  • Dewey Decimal Code 972.810

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From the publisher

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Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were "disappeared") at the hands of the U.S.-backed military government. Written by Daniel Wilkinson, a young human rights worker, the story begins in 1993, when the author decides to investigate the arson of a coffee plantation's manor house by a band of guerrillas. The questions surrounding this incident soon broaden into a complex mystery whose solution requires Wilkinson to dig up the largely unwritten history of the country's recent civil war, following its roots back to a land reform movement that was derailed by a U.S.-sponsored military coup in 1954 and to the origins of a plantation system that put Guatemala's Mayan Indians to work picking coffee beans for the American and European markets.

Decades of terror-inspired fear have led the Guatemalans to adopt a survival strategy of silence so complete that it verges on collective amnesia. The author's great triumph is that he finds a way for people to tell their stories, and it is through these stories--dramatic, intimate, heartbreaking--that we are shown the anatomy of a thwarted revolution that has relevance not only to Guatemala but also to countless places around the world where terror has been used as a political tool.

From the rear cover

""Silence on the Mountain" has the seductive allure and vivid characters of the finest fiction and the penetration of the most elegant journalism. Mr. Wilkinson's painstaking work has crucial lessons for our government's future role not only in Latin America but in the entire world. Above all, his book serves literature's deepest impulse: to bring forth truth out of silence."--The 2003 pen/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction citation

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Citations

  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2005, Page 94

About the author

Daniel Wilkinson is Managing Director, Americas Division at Human Rights Watch.