Description
A surreal and macabre farce, part Buster Keaton, part time bomb, about a young sociologist who assumes the identity of a vagrant man living in an abandoned Chevrolet, who then wreaks havoc on San Salvador with a pack of snakes. Translated from the Spanish.
About the Author
Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in 1957 in Honduras, but grew up in El Salvador. He has lived in Guatemala, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain and Germany. His work has been translated into German, French, Italian, and Portuguese. His novel Senselessness was published in English to universal critical acclaim in 2008 by New Directions. He has published eight novels and is now living in exile as part of the City of Asylum project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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