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H.C. Moya: Dance With Snakes
[978-1-897231]

$17.95

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As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet parked across the street from his sister’s apartment. An unexpected turn of events causes Sosa to assume the other man’s identity. When he becomes the driver of the mysterious yellow Chevrolet, Sosa discovers that it is home to four poisonous snakes. With the snakes as accomplices, Sosa unleashes a reign of terror on the city of San Salvador. Dance With Snakes is a macabre high-speed romp, in which violence and comedy become almost indistinguishable. The non-stop action raises provocative questions about social exclusion and the role of the media, but this novel by the author of the acclaimed Senselessness also evokes the tenderness of relations among those on society’s margins.

The acid humour of Horacio Castellanos Moya, resembling that of a Buster Keaton movie or a time-bomb, threatens the hormonal stability of imbeciles, who when they read him feel the irrepressible desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honour for a real writer.
–Roberto Bolaño

Each new novel by Castellanos Moya confirms the author’s importance, his narrative art, his incisive way of describing a country.
–Livres Hebdo (France)

Like a lot of the great Central American novelists, Moya started out with aspirations of becoming a poet, and though Senselessness is full of really miserable, gruesome stuff, it’s exactly the ugliness, as well as Moya’s sense of language, compassion, (and his healthy dose of pessimism) that make Senselessness a phenomenal read and an incredibly important work.
–The Quarterly (U.S.)

Compulsively readable....a welcome, eye﷓opening addition to this new literature of the Latin American nightmare.
–Time Out (New York)

A master of narrative tension. –Reforma (Mexico)

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 28 September, 2009.