The Dream of My Return

Familia Aragón #5

by Horacio Castellanos Moya, Katherine Silver (Translator)

A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador.

Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador. But is it really a dream or a nightmare? When he decides to treat his liver pain with hypnosis, his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve. Hair-brained schemes, half-mad arguments, unraveling murder plots, hysterical rants: everything escalates at a maniacal pace, especially the crazy humor.

Genres: Fiction, Latin American, Novels, Spanish Literature, Novella, Literary Fiction, International

136 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2013

About the author

HORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA is a writer and a journalist from El Salvador. For two decades he worked as editor of news agencies, magazines and newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala and his own country. As a fiction writer, he was granted residencies in a program supported by the Frankfurt International Book Fair (2004-2006) and in the City of Asylum program in Pittsburgh (2006-2008). He has also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, he was guest researcher at the University of Tokyo with a fellowship granted by the Japan Foundation. He has published eleven novels, five short story collections, two essay books, and a diary. His novels have been translated into twelve languages; five of them (Senselessness, The She-Devil in the mirror, Dance with Snakes, Revulsion, and Tyrant memory) are available in English. He was awarded the Manuel Rojas Iberoamerican Prize for Fiction 2014, by the Government of Chile.

Reviews

[Glenn Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Born in Honduras in 1957 and raised in El Salvador, Horacio Castellanos Moya attended college in Toronto. He returned to El Salvador in 1980 in the teeth of a popular uprising against the government and witnessed the massacre of unarmed students and workers which prompted him to travel to Costa Rica and then Mexico where he became a journalist.

When it came time to write novels, his list includes Senseless, a tale of a sex-obsessed alcoholic writer hired by the Catholic Church to clean up a lengthy government report on the torture and eventual slaughter of thousands of innocent villagers; She-Devil in the Mirror where a woman investigates the cold blooded murder of her best friend, a murder taking place in her friend’s own living room in front of her two young daughters; Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador, written as a furious one paragraph rant on the injustices committed against the people of El Salvador, a book that earned the novelist death threats.

One work of the author's I find particularly compelling is his short story Confinement where we listen in on what goes through the mind of an El Salvador guerrilla in hiding, confined to a room in a home of a family sympathetic to his cause. The guerrilla feels trapped in the hot room; he’d like to have a drink. If he could live his life over again, he’d live exactly as his instincts dictate; after all, he joined the revolution out of instinct, like a tiger sniffing out its prey. And when he gets out? He’d be happy, ready to dive back into the city, a good thing, like being born again.

In The Dream of My Return we likewise listen in on the thoughts of a man in crisis, this time its Erasmo, a journalist from El Salvador who is currently living in exile in Mexico City. Erasmo shares much in common with that guerrilla in hiding: he experiences exile as a confinement; he yearns to dive back into his native El Salvador and thus be reborn as the new Erasmo; last but hardly least, he could use a drink.

Actually, there’s more than just Erasmo’s thoughts – we also listen in on his conversations with his family and fellow exiles and follow his movements and actions in and around Mexico City. But since there are no breaks in the long paragraphs from first page to last, it’s as if dialogue and discussion, events and encounters are all contained within the journalist’s stream-of-consciousness, as if the outside world is compressed inside Erasmo - the mind as restricted to a hot room; the mind as insurgent guerrilla.

I read The Dream of My Return over the course of two weeks. At 135 pages the novel is short enough to finish in one or two sittings but I wanted to remain with the narrator, suffering through his crisis, feeling the full impact of his plight as he lives in a pressure cooker with the temperature turned up again and again in all sorts of ways. And that’s all sorts of ways as in the following:

Suspicion, Paranoia, Fear: Erasmo can’t go to a doctor without sensing he could be poisoned; he can’t converse with his fellow Salvadorians without looking around to see if any of the men or women in the room are enemy informants. After all, there are so many enemies – agents of the El Salvador military government and the American CIA, to name just two.

Drinking: In many respects, Erasmo is his own worst enemy – he knows he shouldn’t drink; fueled by alcohol, he might fly into a rage and usually wind up returning home only to pass out on the living room couch and wake up the next morning with a pounding headache and intolerable stomach pains. But he has oh so many issues to deal with and having a drink is such an enjoyable, effective quick fix, at least in the short term.

Doctor Visits: One of the more fascinating parts of the novel finds our journalist in intense physical agony, forcing him to seek out an old retired friend of the family, a physician by the name of Don Chente who convinces his patient to undergo hypnosis. But there are consequences of his hypnosis sessions: having vivid nightmares as well as “telling the story of my life had turned into an unanticipated labor that threatened to foment dangerous internal chaos.” If this isn’t enough, Erasmo continually conjectures what he might have revealed under hypnosis, reason to cause even further alarm.

Memory: Discussions with Don Chente lead to past memories, including how his father was shot in the back for political reasons, how his maternal grandmother turning him against his mother and most especially his father, a man she hated even after he was murdered. A one point he acknowledges he was “a traumatized child who broke out in tears of dread at the shriek of a siren.”

Dissolved marriage: His relationship with wife Eva has turned into unending torment – fanning the fires of domestic hell is Eva admitting she had an affair with an actor by the name of Antolín. And there’s his little daughter Evita pulling at his heartstrings.

Murder: Erasmo discusses with Mr. Rabbit, a former Salvadorian guerrilla, his wish to kill the man who turned him into a cuckold - the actor Antolín. Was this wise? Mr. Rabbit swings into action and hands Erasmo the hot chamber of the weapon he used to do the deed. Now the anxious journalist has even more worries.

The Return: He must be nuts!! Does he really plan to take a flight to his home land where chances are he will be greeted at the airport by military police and promptly lead to prison where he will be tortured and shot? But then again, El Salvador might be just the place to rejuvenate his guilt-racked life. His makes his final decision but not until the very last paragraph. In this way, Horacio Castellanos Moya has written a thriller.



"Where had I drummed up such naïve, even suicidal enthusiasm that allowed me to disguise the dream of my return not only as a stimulating adventure but also as my first step toward changing my life for the better? What made me think that the Salvadoran military would understand that I was not a guerrilla fighter but rather an independent journalist, that they would simply forget the stacks of articles I had written against them, the military, during my Mexican exile?"

[MJ Nicholls · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Latin American novel is rife with rambling first-person narrators prone to digressions and seeming plot dead-ends (see the maestros Infante and Bolaño for more), and this short entertaining novel continues in that tradition with a frenetic narrator receiving treatment for his nerves from doctor Don Chente as his marriage decomposes, and his rage towards his wife’s lover rises to a murderous pitch, and a sequence of other events occur of varying interest as he plans his return to El Salvador at the end of the civil war. Not as humorous as the blurb indicates, not a patch on Mr. Bernhard, but pleasing for the two hours reading time.

[Guillermo Jiménez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Las mejores novelas que uno puede leerson aquellas que no solo cuentan más de una historia, sino aquellas que además de echar luz sutilmente sobre la Historia también logran entretener y llevarnos a reflexionar sobre nuestra forma de leer el mundo.

Castellanos Moya me recuerda sobremanera a Rubem Fonseca, aunque la verdad no creo que ninguno de los dos se ofendería con la comparación, es algo extraño porque no me sucede igual a la inversa.

Esa mezcla de sexo, violencia, poder, política, prensa, y, como en este libro: medicina, psicología y campechanez, explorados con una prosa lúcida y medida son capaces de atraparme.

Castellanos Moya es un lugar necesario dentro del panorama actual de la literatura hispanoamericana, junto con Rey Rosa y Lemebel y el ya mencionado Fonseca. Junto a otros más también, pero por sus temas lo encuentro más emparentado con ellos que con los demás.

[Julie]

8.5/10

While the setting may be the Salvadoran Civil War, which the history books poignantly describe as having lasted 12 years, 3 months and 1 day between 1979 and 1992, my mind couldn't help but drift to every other war, conflict, struggle, (whatever the name!) that put people of good faith and conscience in exile. This is more a long, lyrical dirge to displacement, it seems to me, than it is to any specific time and place. It is equally about the guilt that survivors carry, far away from their homeland, impotent to help the loved ones left behind, powerless to engage in any meaningful way to redress what went wrong back home.

I worry about the generations of people that we are creating: what damage to the psyche to live in a constant state of violence, the soul absorbing anger, guilt, rage, sorrow, in a constant stream, taken in through the very pores of their skin, day in day out, for years, sometimes for decades. What damaged souls are emerging from these wars, these souls scarred beyond description; some of them scarred beyond help. What nightmares do they live through, after the nightmare of real-world conflict is past?

What dreams these people must have.

It is no surprise that people who survive carry the guilt of survival by mere association. It would be a dream I would have every night of my life, so I understand clearly why our protagonist is in a constant state of fear, anxiety, paranoia: it is only guilt, speaking through the breath of conscience.

[A dream ]... when I killed someone but without a specific memory of the act, the anguish produced by the guilt and the fear of having killed somebody without remembering the act or the victim, that was the end of the nightmare, from which I'd abruptly woken, needless to say, but without experiencing any relief from the aforementioned anxiety; I spent a long time lying in bed deeply shaken because something inside me was telling me that the dream was not a dream but rather a message from my unconscious, and that I had probably killed someone and now had no memory of it -- my psyche had erased the fact, who knows when or how. Remembering that nightmare ... had upset me every time I'd remembered it; it gave me a kind of vertigo, as if I were at the edge of a black hole whose unknown strength might at any moment viciously suck me in and carry me off to a reality that I could not possibly imagine, the very possibility of which horrified me beyond all reason.

It seems the damage done gets worse with each succeeding atrocity and the world is becoming a very hotbed of paranoia, depression and madness. Where will it end?

An interesting question is posed in the final chapter: is it possible to re-enter the conflict to work through the madness from within; or is it better to stay away and find some semblance of peace from the outside?

Highly recommended.

He's a writer who has gotten under my skin.

Thanks to Glenn and his superb review for having introduced me to this writer.

[Adam Dalva · Rating 4 out of 5]

An often funny, extremely political little book that thrums with anxiety and vodka tonics, with sexual longing and questions of identity. I quite liked Finch's suggestion in the NYT that this is sort of like a surrealist book where nothing surreal happens; there is as much Murakami here as there is Bolano. There are issues - the treatment of women, some repetition, too little resolution (I understand thematically why that makes sense, but it doesn't necessarily make it the best way to go - but Moya's strange, rambling prose will stick with you.

The central conceit of a man in exile who starts seeing a mysterious doctor-cum-therapist-cum-hypnotist who unlocks his secrets seems pretty flimsy, but Moya does great things with it, with the strangely metronomic way that the body adjusts to weekly appointments. I do wish I had known more about El Salvador's civil war before reading - a bit of anticipatory Wikipedia might be worthwhile.

The translation, incidentally, is fabulous, so good that I wondered a couple of times how she did it.

[Lee Klein · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first half of this achieves levitation -- the language and story unite to stream across and down the pages. A great LOL-worthy bit early on and in general a solid read throughout -- swirling anxiety uber alles.

[Gorkem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Needless to say, Horacio Castellanos Moya is an amazing writer not only does he know how to exaggerate abnormality, but also he lets the readers to explore politic struggles in El Salvador in a satirical way. His metaphors are deep and dark, but they are always genius.

In his last book, " The Dream of My Return", we meet up with Erasmo Aragon who is the protagonist of the book. Erasmo seems to me as if he is a reflection of Salvadorian people subconsciousness. He has a pain in his liver, he has traumas and he is psychologically obsessed with almost everything ( including in paranoia and being an alcoholic). As a journalist, he comes back to El Salvador from Mexico civil War in order to deal with his pain with named Don Chente who is an acupuncturist and uses alternative medicine and hypnosis. And the story develops incredibly fun and disturbing.

Maya makes amazing delusions on Aragon as using hypnosis and materials like acupuncture as metaphors.Comparing to other books, Moya plays with the myth of repression.

If you like dark humor and over-exaggeration, I highly recommend it.

10/7

[jeremy · Rating 4 out of 5]

the fifth castellanos moya book to be translated into english, the dream of my return (el sueño del retorno) finds the salvadoran author mining familiar territory. adept at creating and sustaining a sense of dread and foreboding, castellanos moya's story builds ever more frenetically. while not as arresting as his incomparable senselessness, the dream of my return is, nonetheless, another dark and darkly humorous novel from the long-exiled writer.

and it became evident that only the devil himself knows the pathways taken by our self-esteem

*translated from the spanish by katherine silver (aira, sada, borges, giralt torrente, bernal, adán, et al.)

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are stream of consciousness novels in the tradition of Joyce and Woolf. Babbling brooks that flow through green meadows, taking strange and uncertain twists and turns over rocks and tree roots while gently lulling readers into serenity and sleepiness.

And then there is this novella, The Dream of My Return: a raging river of consciousness, a harum-scarum flood of thoughts and memories and emotion and literary caffeine, David-Foster-Wallace-ian multi-page paragraphs populated with epically long, comma-spliced sentences trying to cram in as much meaning and life and energy before the appearance of the mighty dam of a period that tries to contain the waters and bring them to a full stop.

Frenetic and funny and exhausting. Witty and informative (with regards to recent El Salvadoran history) and sexy.

Sprinting all out from the opening lines to the finish with nary a moment to breathe, The Dream of My Return is a tempest tossed voyage through the mind of a narrator over-analyzing his past and worrying like a paranoiac over his present and future. This may not be among the best of books, but it certainly is entertaining as hell and one-of-a-kind.

[Robert Stewart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perhaps the most unsettling thing about this very unsettling book is the fact that Moya's protagonist is NOT the same man who flees his homeland fearing for his murder at the hands of the government (or guerillas) in Senselessness (2004), though at first blush (and even beyond), this seems in many ways to be the continuation of that story. But it's not. And it's not even some kind of parallel identity crisis as much as it is a parallel narrative identity: though they are different men, and though they are different novels, they complete an arc that depicts an hypnotic, nightmarish commonality of experience for those traumatized by political terror and civil war in Latin America. Those who feel Moya's prose wobbled towards the mundane in Dance With Snakes will be thrilled to pick up those protracted, paranoid sentences that make Senselessness and The Dream of My Return such compelling reads. Kudos, too, belong to Katherine Silver for her excellent translation.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Lukáš Palán · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bom dia.

Tahle knížka se odehrává v Hondurasu, tedy zemi, která je vymyšlená stejně jako třeba Narnia nebo Lichtejnštejnsjko. Nebo snad znáte někoho, kdo byl v Lichttšnšrjěnsku? Já ne.

Ale co vás nemá! Tahle knížka se tam vlastně ani neodehrává! Hlavní hrdina je totiž v Mechiku, zemi, kde lidi čůrají tequilu a kadí taco. Myslím si to, ale už si vlastně nejsem tak jistej. Je to asi dva měsíce co jsem to dočetl. No jasně, předtím jsem dával recenze hned, ale teď už jsem polevil. Polevil? Ale proč Palivo? To si určitě říkáte, že jo? No je mi to jasný. No, když se ptáte, je to jednoduchý. Život mě nebaví, nejraději bych se zabil, za recenze mi nikdo neplatí, brambůrky se slaninou jsou čím dál dražší...mám pokračovat???

No ale abych se vrátil k tomu podstatnýmu. Knížka je docela super, ale tak akorát super. Jakože ne moc super. Jako smažák, když máte opici. Prostě je to dobrý, ale nedokážete popsat proč. Trochu kafka bych řekl.

7/10

[Donald · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you've read a Moya novel before, you know what you're getting into here.

This is very similar to Senselessness in many ways. It's not quite as good, but it's still pretty darn good.

Bolaño fans will be happy to see the appearance of an infrarealist poet.

[Arlo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although it's an over simplification and with a completely different backdrop. This reminded me of the movie "What about Bob?"







3-4 *

[M. Sarki · Rating 2 out of 5]

A waste of money and time. Nowhere near his prior excellence. I abandoned my reading at 70%.

[Mycala · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the perfect book to read right after Anna Karenina. In fact, I needed this book after Anna Karenina. I read it all in one sitting, and blew right through it. Not only that, I laughed. A lot. This is surprising, considering a lot of the subject matter is not funny. Our Hero grew up in a violent part of the world where it was a given that if one was going to be politically active there was a very real chance they would wind up dead. Our Hero does not make the best choices. He goes to visit a new doctor and begins examining his life, making discoveries about himself as he considers the losses of his relatives.

While it is a serious premise in theory, the situations he gets himself into and his neurotic interpretations make it quite hilarious. Possibly more so than usual, because I was still processing Tolstoy's poor Heroine and I needed some levity.

[Gretta · Rating 3 out of 5]

He just wants to go back to his home in El Salvador, but his but his failing health and marriage take him down a feverish rambling pathway toward death. I had a hard time focusing while reading this book. The nontraditional narrative structure was interesting, but meant that I did have to re-read often. Short, but not a book for leisurely beach reading. A fascinating look El Salvador’s civil war, it makes me want to learn more.

[José Miguel Tomasena · Rating 4 out of 5]

La novela fundacional de la paranoia de Erasmo Aragón, un periodista salvadoreño exiliado en México que vuelve a su país después de la guerra civil, y que después aparecerá en la novela Moronga, que leí hace unas semanas.
Guerra civil, delirio, erotismo, cobardía... Castellanos Moya es buenísimo.

[Jerry Muzsik · Rating 4 out of 5]

THIS QUOTE:

The different stages mankind has gone through during its millennia of evolution are experienced by each human being over the course of his lifetime on a vastly reduced scale. Before the Ice Age, man, like other mammals, couldn't control his bladder and bowels: he wandered through the mountains emptying them whenever they filled up no matter where he was. The Ice Age led to a great change in civilization. When humans took shelter in caves and were forced to live a sedentary life, they discovered that they did not like to defecate or urinate where they slept, so they learned to control their bladder and bowels and demand that others do the same— which is why the best way to toilet train a puppy is to place his bed where he does his business ... This was also the first time a human being experienced the emotion we now call anxiety, which consists of having to choose between two options: either he satisfies his instinct to empty himself wherever he happens to be, which means he'd have excrement next to his bed, as we call it now, or he controls his bowels and bladder and empties himself elsewhere. In the first two or three years of his life, every human being goes through this entire process that humanity underwent over the course of thousands of years. Do you understand? When a child is being toilet trained, he confronts anxiety for the first time: either he follows his instinct and does his business whenever he feels pressure on his sphincters, or he pleases his parents and controls his bowels and bladder as they've demanded he do. Anxiety and bowel control are closely related. If a child is raised strictly and is thereby strongly repressed, he will have anxiety throughout his life about his bowel control and, hence, his colon. And when, as an adult, he needs to decide between two options, he will feel anxiety, and that anxiety will make him tense up his sphincter and his colon. This is the cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, an ailment most human beings suffer from at some point, even if they're not aware of it. This is your ailment.

[Andy Weston · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my fourth of Moyà’s novels, and his best.

His narrators shock, and it’s difficult to know where to begin in finding their faults. Erasmo Aragón, an alcoholic, abusive husband, and writer in exile from El Salvador is typical. The reader will challenge his idea of returning to his county that has fighting a violent civil war for twenty years, but Aragón insists that ‘peace is on the not-too-distant horizon’. Rightly or wrongly, he sees opportunity, as a political journalist.

First though, he must deal with the increasing pain in his liver, and enlists Don Chente, a discredited doctor who, rather than head to traditional cures, delivers a diatribe on defecation leading to anxiety. Impressed by this, Aragón seeks his service for hypnosis as therapy also. When he awakes from his trance he is unsure whether he has divulged state secrets to Chente, but before anything can be revealed Chente absconds to San Salvador. Is Chente a double-agent? Or has Erasmo misread the promise of a safe welcome on return to his homeland.

The plot is only part of the pleasure here. The narrative, with its excellent translation by, is genuinely funny. It’s the personal side of the political fiction he writes that is most appealing. Erasmo’s paranoia grows as the day of his return approaches; nothing it seems can calm him except him leering at beautiful young women as they cross his path.

[Thurston Hunger · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this recalled "Zeno's Conscience" - as a rambling, psychoanalytical novel. I think both aim to be humorous (this succeeded much more for me), while still spiked with points. Whatever the actual nature of the fears/pains/problems that plague Erasmo Aragon, the surrounding murder and madness of his country's past are real.

So if you cannot trust the government where you live or where you want to live, then you cannot trust your friends, then you cannot trust your therapist (since you cannot trust even yourself under hypnosis), and surely you cannot trust your gut which is roiling with its own suspicions.

At least you can trust in your libido to lead you into something, whether it is temptation or a mess or a plain....at the very least maybe it can provide you with a moment's distraction from your own spiraling thoughts.

The best joke might be an idea that therapists, for the sake of their own therapy, need to flee some of their patients.

[Justin Evans · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was starting to worry about HCM, since 'She-Devil' and 'Tyrant Memory' were nowhere near as good as 'Senselessness' or 'Bernhard in San Salvador.' Luckily, DMR is another high point, and this makes it pretty clear that if HCM is writing from the perspective of a smart but irritated dude, his irony will work, but if he's writing from any other perspective, they may not work quite so well. I'm basically not down with unreliable narrators who are unreliable because they're meant to be stupid. It's a little awkward that when HCM's protagonists are women, they're, well, stupid or annoying. It's worth keeping in mind that HCM's men are stupid too, but in a different, and more entertaining way. But still, I'm okay if anyone's upset by the gender divide here.

And, in any case, this book is great.

[Paige Stephens · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars

I had never read from a Salvadorian author before, so I enjoyed learning more about the history of the civil war and exile for my Spanish class. The question of repressed memory, trauma, and anxiety over the impending return of Erasmo to El Salvador during the civil war was interesting. However, this book was definitely difficult with long, rambling monologues and sentences that take up a whole page. None of the characters are likeable, especially considering the misogyny of Erasmo and El Muñecón. I also found the ending felt somewhat arbitrary with no real resolution for Erasmo's internal conflict.

[Ivan Parra Garcia · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya is a brilliant and unsettling dive into the mind of Erasmo Aragón, a journalist caught between exile and the haunting pull of his homeland. As Erasmo plans his return to El Salvador, his journey is derailed by hypnosis sessions that unravel buried memories and amplify his paranoia. The mix of dark humor and sharp psychological insight had me hooked. Castellanos Moya masterfully blurs the line between reality and delusion, creating a story that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. A gripping read that lingers long after the final page!

[Alan Diaz-Romero · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very strange, hectic read. Moya was great at describing the alcohol-soaked anxiety of the protagonist. Page length sentences that merged digression after manic digression created an unhinged narrative flow that I really enjoyed. I related to that mania and to the tactics the protagonist used to manage it (ie. not great ones). I'm glad the book didn't really take me anywhere. It just shook me around and left me like the protagonist: in a state of agitated anticipation for the future, worried that self-destruction will always hold it's lead on self-improvement.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Castellanos Moya is currently my favorite author. Built into his style is the anxiety of the exile. It's very dark but also very funny. Not for people who need a more straight forward commercial style as he relies on the run on sentence. I didn't even notice it, though, until someone pointed it out. Also, like many authors from outside the States, his work is more political than some may feel comfortable. Loved this, loved Senselessness. BTW, awesome translation.

[Rodrigo Domínguez · Rating 2 out of 5]

No voy a cuestionar la talla de Castellanos Moya como cronista de la posguerra, ni como el escritor talentoso, inteligente y humorístico que sin duda es.

Habiendo dicho eso, no estaré contando este libro entre mis favoritos. Su forma me pareció anticuada y fabricada, y su fondo, aunque a veces interesante e ingenioso, me encontró en una vorágine confusa que poco tiene que ver con el sicoanálisis al que busca hacer alusión.

[K's Bognoter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Velskrevet, ironisk underspillet og alligevel alvorlig roman om eksil-salvadoranske traumer tilsat vodka tonic.
Læs anmeldelsen her: http://bognoter.dk/2017/05/18/horacio...

[Emerson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Moya has immense flow. Just a single page cover an extreme amount of ground so that one is able to drift through the book seamlessly. Each page glides from one memory, place, and moment to the next, carrying the reader with it. This is a stream of consciousness narrative if I've ever seen one.

[Harrison Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

I spent my free time in my first year of college attempting to write in this style, not entirely sure if it had been done before. Turns out it has been done, and done so well it bleeds through translation. Bababababababa ababbababababBOOOM