Salvador - Joan Didion - 1983

In Salvador, Joan Didion crafts a razor-sharp portrait of a nation balanced on the edge of horror. Through her characteristic lens of clear-eyed observation, she documents two weeks spent in El Salvador in 1982, during the height of a brutal civil war that the world preferred to ignore. In prose that is both precise and haunting, Didion maps the geography of fear: corpses displayed in public squares, civilians vanishing in broad daylight, and the suffocating weight of terror that blankets daily life. Yet this is no simple catalog of atrocities. Instead, Didion reveals how violence becomes policy, how terror infiltrates the mundane, and how Americans remain willfully blind to their own government's complicity. Part reportage, part fever dream, Salvador stands as one of the most unflinching accounts of political terror ever written—a masterwork that forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about power, violence, and our own capacity for looking away. - Salvador - Joan Didion Published 1983, Lester & Orpen Dennts Publishers Limited / Simon & Schuster, Toronto Hardcover. Approx 5.5x9.5in. 108pp. In good vintage condition. Dust-jacket is a bit scuffed.