Joan Didion

El Salvador, 1982, is the height of a ghastly civil war. The author travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadoran meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye on the terror there as well as on the depredations and evasions of US foreign policy.

Salvador

woahluv

loved it. Joan Didion manages to capture the salvadoran spirit of the time. the desensitization of a nation.

I really need to re-read this with better knowledge of spanish. el salvador and the US' involvment in central america

Francine Corry

The author recounts her 1982 visit to El Salvador and describes the terror, fear and political repression that permeated the country

Salvador

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