num_pages: 337
description: Social protest and poetry; reality and myth; nostalgia for an uncorrupted, golden past; sensual human enjoyment of the present; 'magic' rather than lineal time, and, above all, a tender, compassionate love for the living, fertile, wondrous land and the struggling, hopeful people of Guatemala. "Saturday Review"; Winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature
language: English
title: Men of Maize
titlecomplete: Men of Maize
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Novels, Latin American, Latin American Literature, Nobel Prize, Spanish Literature, Magical Realism, Fiction
ratings_count: 854
places: Guatemala
publisher: Delacorte Press