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The She-Devil In The Mirror (2009)

by Horacio Castellanos Moya(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0811218465 (ISBN13: 9780811218467)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

New Directions

review 1: Castellanos Moya was a professor of mine while studying writing in college, and I regret that it took me a year after graduating to finally pick up this book. I had to get used to the style in the very beginning, though as soon as I did I blew right through it in a day. I was hesitant when I saw the writing format, the complete lack of paragraphs or indentation. Books written like this have always been the bane of my existence because I find them next to impossible to get through, and most of the time I can't see WHY the author chose to do it that way. But this was perfect. There are several chapters, so there are a few places to stop for a break, although I didn't really need one. The writing is really clever, and many times I had to laugh because the story was just so cl... moreeverly narrated. It's quite a rollercoaster of a story, and I highly recommend it to any fans of Latin American literature, or anyone looking for something different for their bookshelf.
review 2: Moya is a writer of great skill who creates in this novel an unforgettable narrator, a woman whose best friend has been cruelly murdered. As the narrator discusses her friend's sexual and political entanglements, she begins to slip into madness and paranoia. These emotions are spawned to a great extent by the general climate of political fear that one encounters also in Moya's more famous novel "Senselessness." For a reader like me who does not understand what must be oblique references to Latin American politics, the narrator is interesting for another reason, and that is the way she consistently backtracks and undermines so many of her original claims. Indeed, one begins to suspect she has more knowledge of the murder than she admits, for surely little that she says can really be trusted. "The She-Devil in the Mirror" is a fast and fascinating read. less

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