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Recommended horror books (1)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into horror here are some horror books from El Salvador for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya EN

Rating: 4     12 Votes
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
Recommended: 20 Feb 2022


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