Tyrant Memory (32 page)

Copyright © 2008 Horacio Castellanos Moya

Translation copyright © 2011 Katherine Silver

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Published by arrangement with Horacio Castellanos Moya and his agent and
publisher, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona.

Originally published in Spain as
Tirana Memoria
by Tusquets
Editores.

Publisher’s Note: The epigraph from Canetti’s
The Agony of Flies
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was
translated by H. F. Broch de Rothermann.

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Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Castellanos Moya, Horacio, 1957–

[Tirana memoria. English]>

Tyrant memory / Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by
Katherine Silver. p. cm.

Originally published in Spain as: Tirana memoria.

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