
Senselessness
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A proofreader working on a report about massacres of Indigenous people becomes increasingly paranoid.
Original title: Insensatez
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Salarrué offers a route through rural speech and short fiction, and Dalton through personal and revolutionary poetry. Castellanos Moya portrays the country through angry monologue, paranoia and social prejudice. Hernández shifts attention from fighting to women’s daily labour after war. Together these works explore both the roots of community and its painful fractures.
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A proofreader working on a report about massacres of Indigenous people becomes increasingly paranoid.
Original title: Insensatez
The murdered woman’s friend delivers a monologue exposing fear, class prejudice and violence among Salvadoran elites.
Original title: La diabla en el espejo

A returning emigrant delivers a merciless tirade about his country and its everyday rituals.
Original title: El asco

A former guerrilla fighter tries to protect her daughters and rebuild life after war.
Original title: Roza, tumba, quema

This selection from the Salvadoran revolutionary’s poetry joins humour, personal experience and political dissent.
This bilingual collection of short tales introduces the language and daily life of rural El Salvador.
Original title: Cuentos de barro
A writer’s planned return to El Salvador becomes entangled in paranoia, hypnosis and memories of war.

A family’s fate unfolds between a failed coup and a strike against the dictator in 1944.
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