GUATEMALA

 
I, Rigoberta Menchu
Elisabeth Burgos Debray, ed

Controversial "autobiography" by indigenous leader and Nobel peace prize-winner that describes the army's brutal campaign against the indigenous people during the civil war
 
Bitter fruit: the story of the American coup in Guatemala
Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer

Recounts the CIA's overthrow of the elected government in 1954
 
The President
 
Miguel Angel Asturias
Noel by Guatemala's Nobel prize winning author. Part of a trilogy that includes Men Of Maize and The Green Pope
 
The long night of white chickens
 
Francisco Goldman

Clever, compelling tale set in the 1980s civil war years
 
The Hummingbird House
 
Patricia Henley
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Leftist, feminist novel about repression in Guatemala