Tyrant Memory [Paperback]

The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moyas 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.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.A welcome, eye-opening addition to this new literature of the Latin American nightmare.InThe only writer of my generation who knows how to narrate the horror, the secret Vietnam that Latin America was for a long time.Castellanos Moya can be a brilliant practitioner of edge of collapse, culling searing narratives of exile and estrangement.Castellanos Moyas most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny.