{"product_id":"harsh-times-1","title":"Harsh Times","description":"THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE  \"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever.\" Financial Times  Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas.   Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40737065533525,"sku":"9780571365692N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/2c986014-75f8-4cc3-8d65-bb52d64ade05.jpg?v=1701800193","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/harsh-times-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}