The She-Devil in the Mirror - Brossura

Moya, Horacio Castellanos

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811218465 ISBN 13: 9780811218467

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2009

Riassunto

Shocked by the in-home murder of her best friend, Laura Rivera vows to track down the unknown killer, an effort set against a backdrop of post-civil war San Salvador that challenges her notions about justice and truth. By a PEN-winning translator and the author of Senselessness. Original.

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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).

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• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0811218465
• ISBN 13: 9780811218467
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 191