Salvador | Granta

  • Published: 07/02/2019
  • ISBN: 9781783785230
  • 129x20mm
  • pages

Salvador

Joan Didion

El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb ‘to disappear’ and trains a merciless eye not only on the terror there but also on the depredations and evasions of US foreign policy. Salvador is a restless and unflinching masterclass in the art of reportage by one of the great literary stylists of the twentieth century.

The Author

Joan Didion was born in California. She has been a novelist, essayist and screenwriter and her books include Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador and the memoir Where I Was From. The Year of Magical Thinking, written after the sudden death of her husband, won the 2005 National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Memoir and became a best-seller. In 2009, Didion was made an honorary Doctors of Letters by Harvard University. She lives in New York.

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