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.
Mark Fishman
Né en 1954 à Milwaukee, **Mark Fishman** vit et travaille à Paris depuis 1995. Auteur de nouvelles publiées dans des revues littéraires prestigieuses (*Chicago Review*, *Carolina Quarterly*, *The Literary Review*), il signe avec *No. 22 Pleasure City* un roman audacieux, mêlant influences manga, pulp et satire. Son œuvre se distingue par un style narratif unique et une exploration des marges de la société.