Salvador by Joan Didion

The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror—its mechanisms, rationales and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. As she travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics. Didion's 1983 essay, Salvador, was written after a two-week long trip to El Salvador with her husband. This 1983 Chatto & Windus Paperback is in fair condition. Owner's Name inside. Worn and foxed.

ISBN: 9780701139131 SKU: 1572938 This image is of the actual book.

Location: Politics