Description
In a world where political repression tightens its grip, this novel unfolds through the intimate diaries of Dona Haydée Aragon, a patrician mother whose husband, Pericles, is repeatedly imprisoned for his polemical writing. As her entries chart a painful awakening to the personal costs of dissent, the story widens to follow Clemente, whose frantic, darkly comic efforts to avoid capture expose how fear can warp judgment and reshape ordinary lives. Blending psychological intensity with satirical momentum, the book treats memory as both refuge and weapon—something that can preserve truth or become a tool for survival. With Horacio Castellanos Moya’s sharp, restless prose, it interrogates tyranny, complicity, and the stories people tell to keep going when power insists on silence.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Jan 1, 2011
281 pages
ISBN: 9780811219174
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Details
First Published
2011
Language
spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya.