Friday, July 23, 2010

A tragic tragety

"The She-Devil in the Mirror" by Horacio Castellanos Moya is a dizzying, spiraling tale spun in first-person monologue and will keep your eyes glued to the page. It took me a couple of pages to get used to the chatty, biased narrator's story, but the pace picks up fairly quickly. When Laura's best friend is murdered by a hit-man, she becomes determined to find out who pulled the trigger. With money, good-looks and an obsessive will, she begins digging up the past in a desperate attempt to glue the pieces together. With the country on the brink of economic upheaval, Laura's sensible voice becomes shriller, less cognitive and more paranoid as her world begins to fall apart.
A beautifully translated story in a writing style which is rarely successful, this is a must read!

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