Red April

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Red April
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Santiago Roncagliolo
Translated by Edith Grossman
SeriesAtlantic Cult Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9781786495402
Audience
General
Edition Main - Print on demand

Publishing Details

Publisher Atlantic Books
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publication Date 5 April 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The priest adjusted a cross hanging on the wall. It was a black cross without the image of Christ. Just a black cross on a grey surface. The prosecutor did not want to think about the cross burned into the forehead of the corpse... Eccentric Felix Chacaltana Saldivar is a hapless, by-the-book prosecutor living in a small town, six hundred kilometers from Lima. Until now he has lived a life in which nothing exceptionally good or bad has ever happened to him. But when a charred and mutilated body, discovered during Carnival, signals the return of a serial murderer, Saldivar is inexplicably put in charge of the enquiry. As he investigates he must confront what happens to a man, and to a society, when death becomes the only certainty.

Author Biography

Santiago Roncagliolo has been a screenwriter, investigative journalist and political adviser. He was born in Lima, Peru, and currently lives in Barcelona. Edith Grossman is the award-winning translator of such masterworks as Cervantes's Don Quixote and Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.

Reviews

A tour de force * Times Literary Supplement * Riveting... Red April is rooted in Peru's past and present, but resonates far beyond * Guardian * The terrible story of a society without hope * Independent * Violence stalks the pages... A dark and almost unhinged display * Irish Times *