{"product_id":"senselessness-0811217078","title":"Senselessness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0811217078\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Castellanos Moya, Horacio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, \"that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger.\" Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases (\"the houses they were sad because no people were inside them\"), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger-after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51872188301600,"sku":"NEW0811217078","price":17.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61Uve5LnIkL.jpg?v=1781713916","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/senselessness-0811217078","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}