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Castellanos Moya's most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny.

Trade Review
"Brilliantly funny and unsettling. Despite his estrangement from his country and his merciless criticism of it, he has put El Salvador on the literary map, giving it an international existence." -- Natasha Wimmer - The Nation
"A welcome, eye-opening addition to this new literature of the Latin American nightmare." -- Anderson Tepper - Time Out New York
"In Tyrant Memory, Castellanos Moya’s ambitious and deft handling of his characters’ stories and political milieus reveal a writer unparalleled in his ability to portray the anxieties and messy complexities of political and personal turmoil." -- Jeffery Zuckerman - Review of Contemporary Fiction
"Tyrant Memory stands out because of its scrupulous evocation of an atmosphere of conspiracy and its use of historical events." -- Times Literary Supplement
"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 Bolan~o
"Castellanos Moya can be a brilliant practitioner of edge of collapse, culling searing narratives of exile and estrangement." -- Julia Haav - Three Percent

Tyrant Memory

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    A Paperback / softback by Horacio Castellanos Moya, Katherine Silver

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      Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
      Published 13 September 2011
      ISBN-13 9780811219174
      978-0811219174
      ISBN-10 0811219178
      Also in:
      Biography, Literature and Literary studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Castellanos Moya's most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny.

      Trade Review
      "Brilliantly funny and unsettling. Despite his estrangement from his country and his merciless criticism of it, he has put El Salvador on the literary map, giving it an international existence." -- Natasha Wimmer - The Nation
      "A welcome, eye-opening addition to this new literature of the Latin American nightmare." -- Anderson Tepper - Time Out New York
      "In Tyrant Memory, Castellanos Moya’s ambitious and deft handling of his characters’ stories and political milieus reveal a writer unparalleled in his ability to portray the anxieties and messy complexities of political and personal turmoil." -- Jeffery Zuckerman - Review of Contemporary Fiction
      "Tyrant Memory stands out because of its scrupulous evocation of an atmosphere of conspiracy and its use of historical events." -- Times Literary Supplement
      "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 Bolan~o
      "Castellanos Moya can be a brilliant practitioner of edge of collapse, culling searing narratives of exile and estrangement." -- Julia Haav - Three Percent

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