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Red April / Santiago Roncagliolo ; translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.

by Roncagliolo, Santiago.

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Pantheon Books, c2009.

Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.

Public prosecutors -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Lima (Peru) -- Fiction.

1st American ed.

271 p. ; 22 cm.

Translation of: Abril rojo.

"A chilling, internationally acclaimed political thriller, Red April is a grand achievement in contemporary Latin American fiction, written by the youngest winner ever of the Alfaguara Prize—one of the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world—and translated from the Spanish by one of our most celebrated literary translators, Edith Grossman. It evokes Holy Week during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in Peru’s history, shocking for its corrosive mix of assassination, bribery, intrigue, torture, and enforced disappearance—a war between grim, ideologically-driven terrorism and morally bankrupt government counterinsurgency. Mother-haunted, wife-abandoned, literature-loving, quietly eccentric Felix Chacaltana Saldivar is a hapless, by-the-book, unambitious prosecutor living in Lima. Until now he has lived a life in which nothing exceptionally good or bad has ever happened to him. But, inexplicably, he has been put in charge of a bizarre and horrible murder investigation. As it unfolds by propulsive twists and turns—full of paradoxes and surprises—Saldivar is compelled to confront what happens to a man and a society when death becomes the only certainty in life."--Inside jacket.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

Suspense fiction.

Political thriller.

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