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...
Felix Chacaltana Saldivar is a hapless, by-the-book prosecutor living in a small town, six-hundred kilometers from Lima. Until now he has led 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.
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.
Title: Red April (Atlantic Cult Classics)
Author: Roncagliolo, Santiago
ISBN: 9781786495402
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Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication Date: 2018-04-05
Number of Pages: 288
Weight: 0.3001 kg
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 *