«Es al mismo tiempo un descenso a los infiernos y un libro sobre qu nos hace humanos . -Junot D az Un mes despu s de haberse visto obligado a huir de El Salvador, amenazado de muerte por insultar al presidente, el narrador, borracho y adicto al sexo, afronta un ins lito encargo: revisar un informe que relata con todo lujo de detalles el genocidio padecido por los pueblos ind genas de un pa s centroamericano. Lo que en principio parec a un trabajo prometedor desembocar en una tarea interminable y rodeada de sospechas: el descenso a los infiernos de quienes sobrevivieron a matanzas inenarrables, criaturas bifrontes de la fascinaci n y del horror. Abrir la caja de Pandora de lo que sucedi poco antes en el lugar donde ahora vive recluido lo dejar a merced de unos cr menes que parecen no pertenecer nicamente al pasado, y que est n al acecho. Horacio Castellanos Moya es el autor del mejor retrato jam s escrito sobre el terror, la paranoia y el miedo que siguen a los horrores perpetrados en los pa ses de Centroam rica; una vez m s, la confirmaci n del extraordinario pulso narrativo del mayor experto en auscultar la salud de un continente instalado en una angustia perpetua. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION"It is, at the same time, a descent into hell and a book about what makes us human." --Junot D az A month after being forced to leave El Salvador upon receiving a death threat for insulting the president, our drunk and sex addict narrator faces a rare assignment: reviewing a report that details perfectly the genocide suffered by indigenous peoples in a Central-American country. What at first seems like a promising job will become an endless task clouded by suspicion: a descent into hell by those who survived unspeakable carnage, bifront creatures of fascination and horror. Opening Pandora's box, revealing what happened not so long ago at that place where he now lives as a recluse will leave him at the mercy of crimes that somehow don't belong exclusively in the past, but are lurking close. Horacio Castellanos Moya is the author of the best portrait ever written about the terror, the paranoia, and the fear that follow the horrors perpetrated in Central-American countries. Once again, we confirm the extraordinary narrative pulse of an expert in examining the health of a continent installed in perpetual anguish.
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