The Magic Dogs of San Vicente - Paperback

by Mark Fishman (Author)

The Magic Dogs of San Vicente is set in the aftermath of the war in El Salvador (1980-1992), a war in which the two Flores brothers were arrested and savagely tortured, but a war that they ultimately survived. On a heat-soaked morning in El Salvador's wild countryside, the Flores brothers encounter something -- part vision, part phantasm, part shuddering echo of their past -- that almost frightens them out of their wits. What follows is a magical, dream-like and picaresque journey, as the Flores brothers try to find what will set them free from the thing that they have witnessed and from the tragedies of their past.

Back Jacket

The novel is set in the aftermath of the war in El Salvador (1980-1992), a war in which the two Flores brothers were arrested and savagely tortured both physically and mentally, but a war that they ultimately survived. On a heat-soaked morning in the wild countryside of El Salvador, the Flores brothers encounter something ? part vision, part phantasm, part shuddering echo of their past ? that almost frightens them out of their wits. What follows is a magical, dream-like and picaresque journey across El Salvador, as the Flores brothers try to find what will set them free from the thing that they have witnessed and from the tragedies of their past.

Author Biography

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Studied filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute with George Kuchar. Supported Sandinista National Liberation Front and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. Short stories published from 1979 on in well-known literary journals. Worked at the AIDS Project Los Angeles. Moved to Paris in 1995.