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The She-Devil in the Mirror

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Description

Laura Rivera can't believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out. Her dizzying, delirious, hilarious, and blood-curdling one-sided dialogue carries the reader on a rough and tumble ride through the social, political, economic, and sexual chaos of post-civil war San Salvador. A detective story of pulse-quickening suspense, The She-Devil in the Mirror is also a sober reminder that justice and truth are more often than not illusive. Castellanos Moya's relentless, obsessive narrator--female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliable--paints with frivolous profundity a society in a state of collapse.

Castellanos Moya's Senselessness was acclaimed "an innovative and invigoratingly twisted piece of art" (Village Voice) and "a brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials" (Russell Banks).

Product Details

PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish DateSeptember 30, 2009
Pages192
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780811218467
Dimensions8.0 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds
BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction,

About the Author

Horacio Castellanos Moya was born 1957 in Honduras. He has lived in San Salvador, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico (where he spent ten years as a journalist, editor, and political analyst), Spain, and Germany. In 1988 he won the National Novel Prize from Central American University for his first novel. His work has been published and translated in England, Germany, El Salvador and Costa Rica. He has published ten novels and is now living in exile as part of the City of Asylum project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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.

Reviews

[It] careen[s] with such giddy enthusiasm.--Don Sjoerdsma "Northwest Phoenix"
Castellanos Moya's narrator is delightfully paranoid and obsessed.--Joshua Marcus "Times Literary Supplement"
Dark and comic, at turns violent and oddly erotic.--Nate Martin "Stopsmiling.com"
He has put El Salvador on the literary map.--Natasha Wimmer "The Nation"
Humor amid the madness and evil. Don't let the breezy, often funny and frequently irreverent tone fool you.--John Greenya "Sunday Washington Times"
Like Kafka, Moya keeps an ironic eye trained on the way in which bureaucracies become corollaries of dictatorships....His leaps from absurdity to terror and back again are like something out of The Castle.--Tommy Wallach "The World (PRI)"
This book reads beautifully...and is quite captivating. Looks like Moya's reputation will continue to grow for years to come.--Chad Post "Three Percent"
The only writer of my generation who knows how to narrate the horror, the secret Vietnam that Latin America was for a long time.--Roberto Bolaño

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