The green pope (El papa verde)
This is a book of a political nature in which the dirty machinations of big American capital in Guatemala are revealed, depicting them through the action and life attitudes of the heartless and calculated Yankee Gea Maeker Thompson.
Once a pirate in the Caribbean, the main protagonist decides to accumulate money by purchasing banana plantations. He makes money by taking land from the natives.
Thompson becomes charmed with an attractive local woman named Mayaris.
Mayaris realizes that Thompson is taking advantage of her people.
She, dressed in bridal white, goes into a river to drown herself as a protest against Thompson.
Dona Flora, Maryaris' mother, marries Thompson.
Does the hand have to adjust to the gun or does the gun have to adjust to the hand?Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 – June 9, 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, and journalist.
Asturias was born and raised in Guatemala though he lived a significant part of his adult life abroad.
His father was a lawyer and judge.
Asturias first attended Colegio del Padre Pedro and then, Colegio del Padre Solís. Asturias began writing as a student.
Asturias spent a year studying medicine before switching to the faculty of law at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in Guatemala City. He obtained his law degree in 1923.
He first lived in Paris in the 1920s where he studied ethnology at the Sorbonne (University of Paris).
Asturias developed a deep concern for Mayan culture and in 1925 he started to work on translating the Mayan sacred text, the Popol Vuh, into Spanish, a project which he spent 40 years on.
In 1930, Asturias published his first novel Leyendas de Guatemala.[
The novel El Señor Presidente (Mister President) is published1946, and after that Men of Maize was published in 1949.
In 1963 his novel, Mulata de Tal was published.
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