Recent Books about Central America

Grave Secrets a novel of Guatemala
by Kathy Reichs
July 9, 2002 , Scribner

Lost Shores and Forgotten Peoples : The Maya of the South East Lowlands of Guatemala
by Lawrence H. Feldman(Translator)
Publisher: Duke Univ Press, 2000

President´s Secret Wars
John Prados, William Morrow & Company, 2000

The Soviet Attitude to Political and Social Change in Central America, 1979-90: Case Studies on Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Danuta Paszyn, St. Martins Press March 2000

Culture and Customs of Guatemala, Greenwood Publishing Group.  March, 2000

When Dogs Ate Candles: A time in El Salvador. Bill Hutchenson, University Press of Colorado.

Confidence of the Heart. A novel set in Guatemala. David Sweidel, Milkweed Editions.

In Focus: Guatemala By Trish Okane. Interlink Publishing Group.

The Guatemalan Military Project. By Jennifer Schirmer. University of Pennsylvania

Indigenous Movements and Their Critics. By Kay B. Warren. Princeton University Press.

A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala.  By Diane M. Nelson University of California Press.

The Journey of Hector Rabinal, a novel set in Guatemala. Donley Watt, Texas Christian University Press.

Return of Guatemala’s Refugees: Reweaving the Torn. 1998  By Taylor Clark Temple University Press.

Return of the Maya by Magnum Photographer Thomas Hoepken, Henry Holt and  Company.

The River of  Lost Voices, short stories from Guatemala, by Mark Brazaitis. University of  Iowa Press.

Robbed of Humanity. Lives of Guatemalan Street Children. Pangea Publishing 1997.
By Nancy Leigh Tierny, Alice Zachmann.

Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its operations in Guatemala. Stanford University Press.

The Sky Never Changes. Testimonials from Guatemala’s Labor Movement. Thomas F. Reed. Cornell International Industrial Labor Relations Reports No. 24. 1996

Threatened with Resurrection, poems by Guatemalan Poet Julia Esquivel, Brethren Press, 1994

Ecoturism, a critique by Martha Honey, Island Press 1999

Never Again: Interdiocesan Recuperation of Historical Memory Report. Bishop Juan Gerardi and others. Orbis Books

Love in a Time of Hate. Liberation Psychology in Latin America. Rutgers University Press.

Violent Memories. By Judith N. Zur. Westview Press.

Walking To La Milpa.  By Marcos McPeek, Villatoro Moyer Bell Ltd.

Voices of The Voiceless, Michelle Tooley, Herald Press

After The Bombs. Novel set in Guatemala by El Norte writer Arturo Arias, 1990 See Amazon.com listing.

The Big Banana, By Honduran Roberto Quesada. Latino exiles in New York. See Amazon.com listing

Ashes of Izalco by Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakoll, Novel set in El Salvador. Curbstone Press.

Bitter Grounds. Novel set in El Salvador by Sandra Benitez, Picador USA
Guatemalans continue to call for justice in the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi.
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