Book
Tyrant memory
New Directions
2011
Abstract
With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April of 1944 failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. The book takes place during that tumultuous month between the coup and the strike. With her husband a political prisoner and her son fleeing for his life, wealthy Haydée Aragon takes matters into her own hands. Events ricochet from one near-disaster to the next.--Publisher's description.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Tyrant memory
- Creators
- Horacio Castellanos Moya - University of Iowa, Spanish and Portuguese
- Contributors
- Katherine Silver (Translator)
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0811218139; 9780811219174; 9780811218139; 0811219178
- Publisher
- New Directions; New York
- Number of pages
- 270 pages
- Translated title
- Tirana memoria
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2011
- Academic Unit
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Record Identifier
- 9983949675802771
Metrics
24 Record Views