The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya's ambitious new novel is the
actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez - known as
the Warlock - who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An
attempted coup in April, 1944, failed, but a general strike in May
finally forced him out of office. Tyrant Memory takes place during
the month between the coup and the strike. Its protagonist, Haydee
Aragon, is a well-off woman, whose husband is a political prisoner
and whose son, Clemente, after prematurely announcing the
dictator's death over national radio during the failed coup, is
forced to flee when the very much alive Warlock starts to
ruthlessly hunt down his enemies. The novel moves between Haydee's
political awakening in diary entries and Clemente's frantic and
often hysterically comic efforts to escape capture. Tyrant Memory -
sharp, grotesque, moving, and often hilariously funny - is an
unforgettable incarnation of a coun- try's history in the destiny
of one family.
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