Books set in El Salvador

One Day of Life

Manlio Argueta

The rural north of El Salvador on the eve of the civil war, seen across a single day from a peasant farming family in the hills of Chalatenango. The map runs from the dirt roads and cornfields of a poor hamlet out to the departmental town, and up into the highland country toward the Honduran border where the National Guard, the army and the first guerrillas collide.

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