Books set in El Salvador (13)
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11.
They Have Fired Her Again by Claudia Hernández EN
Country: North America / 
El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
They Have Fired Her Again is the ominous and compelling tale of a Central American immigrant in New York, narrated by the voices surrounding Lourdes during the exhausting rituals of her workday. Following a myriad of other working immigrants, Lourdes finds herself immersed in an ongoing pursuit of a job, while also being hunted down by peculiar animals-a light moth, a motmot bird, the cats in the shadows, a little crystalline dog, a wolf of stone-among other spectacular collections of animals that steal away, or liberate, lonely women into the perpetual night of the city. They Have Fired Her A... 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
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Un día en la vida by Manlio Argueta ES
Country: North America / El Salvador
El Salvador
Description:
Esta obra refleja las dramáticas condiciones sociales que afrontaban los salvadoreños en los años ochenta, bajo el asedio y la persecución política, en una interiorización de situaciones y caracteres humanos de logrado perfil narrativo. No solo es una excelente novela, sino un testimonio en donde el lenguaje y la verdad se encuentran para descubrir y mostrar la existencia de seres dolientes y, a la vez, heroicos en su desnuda anonimidad. Con esta novela, Argueta logra imponer su condición de escritor lúcido, comprometido, en la mejor l&ia... continue