Legally blind

The Guatemalan author Oswaldo Salazar burst on to the literary scene with From the Darkness, originally published in Spanish as Por el lado oscuro, recounting the story of a notorious murder in 1939. Piecing the crime together from newspaper reports culled from a press in thrall to the then authoritarian dictator Jorge Ubico, Salazar realised that - when it came to the law - the truth has a closer relationship with fiction than we may think Continue reading