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Conversations in clave
The ultimate technical study of four-way independence based on Afro-Cuban rhythms. This detailed and methodical approach will develop four-limb coordination and expand rhythmic vocabulary. Understanding the clave and the relationship between eighth-note and triplet rhythms will aid in mastering the multiple and complex rhythms of Afro-Cuban styles.
The Incredible Wedding of a Dictator
The novel is divided in ten chapters. It starts with the wedding of one the victims of the dictator. In the preamble, there are two godfathers [compadres] (two fathers, one who has baptized the other one son) who share their manuscripts about a fictitious community called Dolorosa Village, the finding of the original manuscript of Christopher Columbus, known as Columbus Journal; and about the apocalyptic predictions of the island. Then, continues the description of the priest of the community; followed by the life of the dictator of Dolorosa: his origin, his political tricks, and his repressive measures, the adventures of his centaurs, the extravagance of his wedding, his decadence, and his death. In the same way, the life of the hero is developed parallel to the dictator with all his vicissitudes and struggles against him. The novel continues with the desperation and exodus of the younger members of the community, and the destruction almost of the whole island caused by a tsunami. Finally, it is closed with an epilogue where the two godparents make a scrutiny about the books written during the dictatorship.
Modern Drummer Festival
This DVD captures one of the world's most accomplished drummers playing Afro-Cuban styles at Modern Drummer's 10th Anniversary Festival Weekend. Horacio provides some revealing insights into the subtleties and challenges of playing this music along with brilliant performances -- both solo and also with world-class bassist John Patitucci.
Tyrant Memory
With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April of 1944 failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. The book takes place during that tumultuous month between the coup and the strike. With her husband a political prisoner and her son fleeing for his life, wealthy Haydée Aragon takes matters into her own hands. Events ricochet from one near-disaster to the next.--Publisher's description.
The Incredible Wedding of a Dictator
The Incredible Wedding of a Dictator by Horacio A Hernandez. This novel is interesting for the eclectic way it introduces its narrative elements; it is a kind of mock epic, for the satirical way the main character is introduced. The main character is a typical dictator in the Caribbean. The secondary characters need to be interpreted in an allegorical way. There is a mystery in the way the dictator meet his wife, and in the way she is metamorphosed into a mare (the beast) and that strange relationship produced two offspring. The two children are two centaurs which at the beginning became the central of attraction of the whole nation; however, gradually, they became the same like their father...
Slash and Burn
A woman fights to keep her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central/ Latin America.
Senselessness
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.
Lands of Memory
A superb fiction collection by the great Uruguayan writer: If I hadn't read the stories of Felisberto Hernández in 1950, I wouldn't be the writer I am today. --Gabriel García Márquez
The Lust of Seeing
The Lust of Seeing is the most comprehensive work on Hernandez to date, elucidating aspects of Hernandez's life and writing that have remained untreated or undertreated by previous criticism. The book's theoretical and comparative discussions also make The Lust of Seeing relevant reading well beyond Hernandez studies, particularly for readers interested in psychoanalysis, myth and ritual, fantastic literature, women's studies, film studies, and textual theory.
La Boda Increble
La novela empieza con la boda de una de las víctimas del dictador. En el preámbulo, hay dos compadres que comparten sus manuscritos sobre la descripción de la Villa Dolorosa, sobre la aparición del Diario original de Cristóbal Colón, y sobre las predicciones apocalípticas de la isla; continúa con la descripción de la vida del párroco de la comunidad; le sigue la descripción del dictador de la Dolorosa; desde sus orígenes, sus trucos políticos, sus medidas represivas, las aventuras de los centauros, la extravagancia de su boda, su decadencia y su muerte. Paralelamente se desarrolla la vida del héroe, sus vicisitudes y luchas contra la dictadura. La novela continúa con la desesperación y éxodo de los moradores de la comunidad, y la destrucción de casi toda la isla por un gran tsunami. Finalmente, se cierra con un epílogo donde los dos compadres hacen un escrutinio sobre los libros escritos durante la dictadura.
