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Tyrant Memory

by Horacio Castellanos Moya

New Directions. 2011. 330p. tr. from Spanish by Katherine Silver. ISBN 9780811219174. pap. $15.95. EL SALVADOR

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In the final days of the Hernández Martínez dictatorship in 1944, Haydée seeks to get her political prisoner husband Pericles released from jail as she worries about the safety of their fugitive son Clemen.

Reviewed by Lawrence Olszewksi , Oct 01, 2014

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