The Dream of My Return - Softcover

Brilliant and devastating and incredibly beautiful.--Chris Faatz

A welcome, eye-opening addition to this new literature of the Latin American nightmare.--Anderson Tepper

Brilliantly funny and unsettling... Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and an act of rebellion, and redeemed paranoia as a positive indicator of rot.--Natasha Wimmer

Acid humor, like a Buster Keaton movie or a time bomb.--Roberto Bolaño

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.