The Dream of My Return
Horacio Castellanos Moya$13.56
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High-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home at the tail end of El Salvador's long civil war.
Is the plan a dream or a nightmare?
Is he courageous, foolhardy, or just plain dumb?
Is the bubbling brew of horrors and threats actual or imagined?
After he seeks relief for liver pain through hypnosis (while drinking more than ever, despite the treatments), his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve, and reality only rarely intrudes on his cogitations. Harebrained murder plots, half-mad arguments, hysterical rants: the narrative escalates at a maniacal pace, infused with Horacio Castellanos Moya's uniquely outlandish and acerbic sense of humor.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 03/10/2015
ISBN: 9780811223430
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2015
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2015
Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 78
New York Times Book Review 01/14/2016 pg. 67