A novel whose time has come: 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 the ecological devastation that come with unchecked capitalist greed.