The She-Devil in the Mirror (New Directions Paperbook)
“He has put El Salvador on the literary map.” (Natasha Wimmer - The Nation)“This book reads beautifully…and is quite captivating. Looks like Moya's reputation will continue to grow for years to come.” (Chad Post - Three Percent)“The only writer of my generation who knows how to narrate the horror, the secret Vietnam that Latin America was for a long time.” (Roberto Bolaño)“Dark and comic, at turns violent and oddly erotic.” (Nate Martin - Stopsmiling.com)“Like Kafka, Moya keeps an ironic eye trained on the way in which bureaucracies become corollaries of dictatorships….His leaps from absurdity to terror and back again are like something out ofThe Castle.” (Tommy Wallach - The World (PRI))“[It] careen[s] with such giddy enthusiasm.” (Don Sjoerdsma - Northwest Phoenix)“Humor amid the madness and evil. Don't let the breezy, often funny and frequently irreverent tone fool you.” (John Greenya - Sunday Washington Times)“Castellanos Moya's narrator is delightfully paranoid and obsessed.” (Joshua Marcus - Times Literary Supplement)