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Title

Silence on the mountain : stories of terror, betrayal, and forgetting in Guatemala / Daniel Wilkinson.

Author

Wilkinson, Daniel

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

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Description

373 p. : ill., 1 map; 24 cm.

Summary

Traces the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war by following the author's investigation of an arson fire and sharing the stories of civilians who have been directly affected by the conflict.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-371).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

A House Burned -- The Owner -- The Student -- The Battlefield -- Exhumation -- Ashes Fell -- Rumor -- Travelogue -- Natural History -- Bildungsroman -- Revelation -- Decree -- A Future Was Buried -- A Dangerous Question -- The Law That Would Change the World -- Betrayal -- Burials -- And They Were the Eruption -- The Savages -- Sacuchum -- The Guerrillas -- The Politicians -- The Terrorists -- The Defeated -- The Storytellers.

ISBN

0618221395

LCCN

^^2002075936

OCLC

50617039

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library