Salvador by Joan Didion

Salvador

Joan Didion

108 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics reflective slow-paced

Description

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 Salvadorian meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not ...

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informative 84%
dark 52%
tense 52%
reflective 42%
challenging 26%
adventurous 15%
emotional 5%
sad 5%

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medium 18%

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