Books by Horacio Castellanos Moya (6)
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El asco : tres relatos violentos by Horacio Castellanos Moya ES
Country: North America / 
Honduras
Honduras
Description:
"Moya, el narrador de la historia, relata con sarcasmo y minuciosidad obsesivas su encuentro con Vega, un emigrante salvadoreno comodamente asentado en el estado del bienestar canadiense de visita en su pais natal. De este falso dialogo, mas bien desmedido monologo con testigo, van apareciendo, como de una gran bolsa de payaso el rencor, las contradicciones, la decapitacion de la historia y los valores que la derecha y la izquierda se disputan en medio de una ciudad, un pais y, por extension, un continente en ruinas."
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La sirvienta y el luchador by Horacio Castellanos Moya ES
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
El Vikingo, un viejo ex luchador profesional que quiere demostrar a sus superiores en la policía que sigue siendo un tipo duro capaz de cumplir todos los encargos, sale con otros compañeros con la misión de llevar a los calabozos del Palacio Negro a unos jóvenes sospechosos. Al día siguiente, una criada, María Elena, acude a servir por primera vez a casa del nieto recién casado de su antiguo patrón, y se encuentra con que no hay nadie para recibirla. Tras preguntar a los vecinos y recibir llamadas cada vez más alarmadas de la familia, María Elena intuye que la desaparición de Albertico y Brita... continue
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Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and gi... continue
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The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. When he decides to treat his liver pain with hypnosis, his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve. Hair-brained schemes, half-mad arguments, unraveling murder plots, hysterical rants: everything escalates. But is his plan a dream or a nightmare?
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Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
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... continue