The Green Pope

Miguel Ángel Asturias · 1954 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

The company man who cleared the coastal lands of their owners rises to run the whole enterprise from Chicago, where the growers call him the Green Pope because he can move a continent by lifting one finger. The plantations he assembled keep producing heirs and claims, and an inheritance ties his own household to the people he dispossessed. The middle Banana Trilogy volume turns from the plantation to the boardroom that owns it.

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