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Dance with snakes : [a novel] / Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Lee Paula Springer.

Castellanos Moya, Horacio, 1957- (Author). Springer, Lee Paula. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781897231616 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 189723161X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 156 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Emeryville [Ont.] : Biblioasis, c2009.

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General Note:
Subtitle from cover.
Translation of: Baile con serpenties.
Summary, etc.:
As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet parked across the street from his sister's apartment. An unexpected turn of events causes Sosa to assume the other man's identity. When he becomes the driver of the mysterious yellow Chevrolet, Sosa discovers that it is home to four poisonous snakes. With the snakes as accomplices, Sosa unleashes a reign of terror on the city of San Salvador. Dance With Snakes is a macabre high-speed romp, in which violence and comedy become almost indistinguishable. The non-stop action raises provocative questions about social exclusion and the role of the media, but this novel by the author of the acclaimed Senselessness also evokes the tenderness of relations among those on society's margins. --Back cover.

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Subject: Sociologists > El Salvador > Fiction.
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