The She-Devil in the Mirror (New Directions Paperbook)

The She-Devil in the Mirror (New Directions Paperbook)

Salvadorean society is shocked by the gruesome murder of a young upper-class woman, and no one more so than her best friend Laura.Â In her first-person solo narration, Laura rattles on and on about her disbelief and horror at the evils all around herâ€”but whoâ€™s that in the mirror?

Laura Rivera canâ€™t believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out. Her dizzying, delirious, hilarious, and blood-curdling one-sided dialogue carries the reader on a rough and tumble ride through the social, political, economic, and sexual chaos of post-civil war San Salvador. A detective story of pulse-quickening suspense, The She-Devil in the Mirror is also a sober reminder that justice and truth are more often than not illusive. Castellanos Moyaâ€™s relentless, obsessive narratorâ€”female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliableâ€”paints with frivolous profundity a society in a state of collapse.

Castellanos Moyaâ€™s Senselessness was acclaimed â€œan innovative and invigoratingly twisted piece of artâ€ (Village Voice) and â€œa brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materialsâ€ (Russell Banks).
Country USA
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-08-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2009-08-12
Format	Kindle eBook

The She-Devil in the Mirror (New Directions Paperbook)

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