Historical fiction books from Honduras
Recommended historical fiction books (4)
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If you are into historical fiction here are some historical fiction books from Honduras for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Blanca Olmedo by Lucila Gamero de Medina ES
Country: North America / Honduras
Honduras
Description:
Blanca Olmedo es una novela romántica, cuyo sentimentalismo no le impide retratar conflictos fundamentales en la sociedad hondureña de inicios del siglo xx. Por ello Blanca Olmedo, la protagonista, es portavoz de agudas críticas al sistema de justicia (o injusticia) imperante en el país, así como a la hipocresía de algunos representantes de la Iglesia católica y la influencia nefasta que ejercían en la sociedad, las familias y las mujeres en especial.
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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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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