A novel whose time has the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President's visionary epic of ecological devastation and the collision of capitalist exploitation and indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction, and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor TobarA Penguin ClassicDeep 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, Miguel Ángel Asturias's lush, dream-like work offers a prescient warning against the loss of ancestral wisdom and ecological devastation that comes with unchecked capitalist greed.