Salvador

Author: Didion, Joan

El Salvador

Published on 7 February 2019 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 112 pages
197 x 130 x 7 | 88g

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.