Horacio Castellanos Moya

The She-Devil in the Mirror (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Silver, Katherine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Salvadorean society is shocked by the gruesome murder of a young upper-class woman, and no one more so than her best friend Laura. In her first-person solo narration, Laura rattles on and on about her disbelief and horror at the evils all around herbut who's that in the mirror?

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 narratorfemale, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliablepaints 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811219853
• Artikelnr.: 59591731

Autorenporträt

Horacio Castellanos Moya was born 1957 in Honduras. He has lived in San Salvador, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico (where he spent ten years as a journalist, editor, and political analyst), Spain, and Germany. In 1988 he won the National Novel Prize from Central American University for his first novel. His work has been published and translated in England, Germany, El Salvador and Costa Rica. He has published ten novels and is now living in exile as part of the City of Asylum project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.