Never any end to Paris
By: Enrique Vila-Matas ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Publisher: New Directions Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780811218139
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: París no se acaba nunca
Description: With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April of 1944 failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. The book takes place during that tumultuous month between the coup and the strike. With her husband a political prisoner and her son fleeing for his life, wealthy Haydée Aragon takes matters into her own hands. Events ricochet from one near-disaster to the next.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "New Directions paperbook original"--T.p.