El Asco (Spanish, Paperback)

Edgardo Vega, after eighteen years of voluntary exile in Canada, returns to El Salvador to attend the funeral of his mother. The trip, "a spooky journey" is unbearable, his compatriots are repulsive and lead him into it a state of anxiety that will not leave until he leaves. He tells Moya, a former schoolmate, all of his feelings about the visiting. Vega finds El Salvador despicable, he attacks everything: church, education, politics and politicians, his own family... and throw up his criticisms to the point of identifying himself with Thomas Bernhard.