{"product_id":"senselessness","title":"Senselessness","description":"A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, \"that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger.\" Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases (\"the houses they were sad because no people were inside them\"), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger―after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0811217078\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0811217078.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Castellanos Moya, Horacio|Silver, Katherine\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46898387255493,"sku":"LFV.0811217078.VG","price":6.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0811217078-0.jpg?v=1789146155","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/senselessness","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}