Horacio Castellanos Moya

Senselessness is the English translation of the 2004 novel Insensatez, originally written in Spanish by Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya. Senselessness was translated by Katherine Silver and published in 2008 by New Directions Publishers. The translation was short-listed for the 2009 Best Translated Book …

Shocked by the in-home murder of her best friend, Laura Rivera vows to track down the unknown killer, an effort set against a backdrop of post-civil war San Salvador that challenges her notions about justice and truth. By a PEN-winning translator and the author of Senselessness. Original.