Strong Wind

Miguel Ángel Asturias · 1950 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

An American who has quit the fruit company to grow bananas as a smallholder on the Guatemalan coast tries to combine the independent planters against the price the company alone is allowed to set. The company answers with freight rates, lawyers and patience, while a local shaman offers a remedy of another kind entirely. First of the Banana Trilogy, drawn from the concessions Asturias watched being written.

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