# Men of Maize

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- Book: [Men of Maize](https://www.bookquiver.com/miguel-angel-asturias/men-of-maize) ([Men of Maize.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/miguel-angel-asturias/men-of-maize.md))
- Authors: [Miguel Ángel Asturias](https://www.bookquiver.com/miguel-angel-asturias)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-840-2
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2025-04-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous Mayans – the 'men of maize' – serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When profiteering outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter a bloody struggle to protect their way of life. Blurring the lines between history and mythology, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and the environmental destruction set in motion by colonial oppression and capitalist greed.