Miguel Ángel Asturias
Praise for Men of Maize
I find it difficult to imagine similar depth, whether by or about the Indigenous people, anywhere in Latin American literature ... The translation ... is an achievement unto itself
Eduardo Galeano, Los Angeles Times
Men of Maize is Asturias’s Mayan masterpiece, his indigenous Ulysses, a deep dive into the forces that made and kept the Maya a subservient caste and the perpetual resistance that kept Guatemala’s many ...
Héctor Tobar
Men of Maize may one day be considered the most important book written in Central America since the so-called ‘Maya Bible’ or ‘Maya Genesis,’ the Popol Vuh ... A symbolic history of life on this planet ...
Gerald Martin
I find it difficult to imagine similar depth, whether by or about the Indigenous people, anywhere in Latin American literature ... The translation ... is an achievement unto itself
Eduardo Galeano, Los Angeles Times
Men of Maize is Asturias’s Mayan masterpiece, his indigenous Ulysses, a deep dive into the forces that made and kept the Maya a subservient caste and the perpetual resistance that kept Guatemala’s many ...
Héctor Tobar
Men of Maize may one day be considered the most important book written in Central America since the so-called ‘Maya Bible’ or ‘Maya Genesis,’ the Popol Vuh ... A symbolic history of life on this planet ...
Gerald Martin
I find it difficult to imagine similar depth, whether by or about the Indigenous people, anywhere in Latin American literature ... The translation ... is an achievement unto itself
Eduardo Galeano, Los Angeles Times
Men of Maize is Asturias’s Mayan masterpiece, his indigenous Ulysses, a deep dive into the forces that made and kept the Maya a subservient caste and the perpetual resistance that kept Guatemala’s many ...
Héctor Tobar
Men of Maize may one day be considered the most important book written in Central America since the so-called ‘Maya Bible’ or ‘Maya Genesis,’ the Popol Vuh ... A symbolic history of life on this planet ...
Gerald Martin