The She-Devil in the Mirror
Horacio Castellanos Moya
(Author)
Katherine Silver
(Translator)
Description
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 narrator--female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliable--paints 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).
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
September 30, 2009
Pages
191
Dimensions
5.26 X 0.58 X 8.02 inches | 0.51 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811218467
BISAC Categories:
Earn by promoting books
Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.
Become an affiliate
About the Author
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.
Katherine Silver's award-winning translations include works by María Sonia Cristoff, Daniel Sada, César Aira, Julio Cortázar, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Julio Ramón Ribeyro. The author of Echo Under Story, she volunteers as an interpreter for asylum seekers.
Reviews
He has put El Salvador on the literary map.--Natasha Wimmer
[It] careen[s] with such giddy enthusiasm.--Don Sjoerdsma
Dark and comic, at turns violent and oddly erotic.--Nate Martin
Humor amid the madness and evil. Don't let the breezy, often funny and frequently irreverent tone fool you.--John Greenya
Castellanos Moya's narrator is delightfully paranoid and obsessed.--Joshua Marcus
This book reads beautifully...and is quite captivating. Looks like Moya's reputation will continue to grow for years to come.--Chad Post
The only writer of my generation who knows how to narrate the horror, the secret Vietnam that Latin America was for a long time.--Roberto Bolaño
[It] careen[s] with such giddy enthusiasm.--Don Sjoerdsma
Dark and comic, at turns violent and oddly erotic.--Nate Martin
Humor amid the madness and evil. Don't let the breezy, often funny and frequently irreverent tone fool you.--John Greenya
Castellanos Moya's narrator is delightfully paranoid and obsessed.--Joshua Marcus
This book reads beautifully...and is quite captivating. Looks like Moya's reputation will continue to grow for years to come.--Chad Post
The only writer of my generation who knows how to narrate the horror, the secret Vietnam that Latin America was for a long time.--Roberto Bolaño
