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Contributor(s):Author: Horacio Castellanos MoyaTranslator: Katherine SilverA boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the armys massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writers job is to tidy it up: he rants, that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger. Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians phrases (the houses they were sad because no people were inside them), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger--after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country. Review citationsPublishers Weekly - pg. 41 - 03/31/2008Library Journal - pg. 88 - 05/15/2008
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
