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Reviewed on August 1, 2011
This page-turner by Castellanos Moya (Senselessness) follows the fictional diary of Dona Haydée Baldoni, whose husband, Pericles, and son, Clemente, risk reprisals after an unsuccessful coup against Salvadoran strongman Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. To justify his brutality, this "Nazi warlock," who ruled El Salvador from 1931 to 1944, dabbled in the occult, famously claiming that it's better to kill a man...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
