Horacio Castellanos Moya 
Tyrant Memory [EPUB ebook] 

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Castellanos Moya’s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny.

The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Herna´ndez Marti´nez — known as the Warlock — who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April, 1944, failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office.
Tyrant Memory takes place during the month between the coup and the strike. Its protagonist, Hayde´e Aragon, is a well-off woman, whose husband is a political prisoner and whose son, Clemente, after prematurely announcing the dictator’s death over national radio during the failed coup, is forced to flee when the very much alive Warlock starts to ruthlessly hunt down his enemies. The novel moves between Hayde´e’s political awakening in diary entries and Clemente’s frantic and often hysterically comic efforts to escape capture.
Tyrant Memory — sharp, grotesque, moving, and often hilariously funny — is an unforgettable incarnation of a coun- try’s history in the destiny of one family.

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About the author

Katherine Silver’s award-winning translations include works by María Sonia Cristoff, Daniel Sada, César Aira, Julio Cortázar, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Julio Ramón Ribeyro. The author of Echo Under Story, she volunteers as an interpreter for asylum seekers.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9780811219860 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Translator Katherine Silver ● Publisher New Directions ● Country US ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7469668 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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