May, 1989. Horacio Castellanos Moya is working as a journalist in Mexico, reporting in exile on the civil war in El Salvador. His debut novel, La diáspora (released in the US for the first time […]
Tag: Marcel Proust
The Birth of a Reader
I dropped my things and immediately cracked the first hundred pages. It was classic Knausgaard: endless descriptions of diapers changed, emails checked, and cigarettes smoked.