Tyrant Memory

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Tyrant Memory

Castellanos Moyaâ€™s most thrilling book to date, about the senselessness of tyranny.

The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moyaâ€™s ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano HernaÂ´ndez MartiÂ´nez â€” known as the Warlock â€” 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, HaydeÂ´e Aragon, is a well-off woman, whose husband is a political prisoner and whose son, Clemente, after prematurely announcing the dictatorâ€™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 HaydeÂ´eâ€™s political awakening in diary entries and Clementeâ€™s frantic and often hysterically comic efforts to escape capture. Tyrant Memory â€” sharp, grotesque, moving, and often hilariously funny â€” is an unforgettable incarnation of a coun- tryâ€™s history in the destiny of one family.

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