Book
Tirana memoria
Colección andanzas, 668, Tusquets Editores
2008
Abstract
"Cuando Pericles Aragón, periodista muy crítico con el gobierno de 'el Brujo, ' el dictador salvadoreño, es arrestado y encarcelado, su mujer, Haydée, decide escribir un diario de los acontecimientos. Mientras anota lo que para ella serían las conversaciones con su marido, irá narrando la progresión de los arrestos, el traslado a la Penitenciaría, las prohibiciones de las visitas y, simultáneamente, el entorno familiar y social del matrimonio. Se produce entonces un golpe de Estado. Y en él está implicado precisamente Clemen, el hijo disoluto de ambos."--P. [4] of cover. "Set in an extraordinary period of El Salvador's history, April and May of 1944, when despised dictator Maximiliano Martínez Hernández evaded an ill-conceived military coup only to be toppled by the brave and disciplined response of civil society. The clandestinely organized campaign that unified students, commercial interests, and tradespeople stands as a landmark moment in Latin America's 20th century. Here, the author traces its events in parallel narrative sections. Anguished diary entries of Haydée Aragón, the well-heeled wife of a political prisoner from a military family alternate with episodes from the painful shared adventures of a soldier and a civilian who risked all in the coup and happen to be Haydée's nephew and son."--Críticas Magazine.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Tirana memoria
- Creators
- Horacio Castellanos Moya - University of Iowa, Spanish and Portuguese
- Resource Type
- Book
- Series
- Colección andanzas; 668
- ISBN
- 8483830892; 9788483830895
- Publisher
- Tusquets Editores; Barcelona
- Number of pages
- 358 pages
- Alternative title
- Tyrannical memory
- Language
- Spanish
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9983949675902771
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