Abril Rojo Libro

Abril rojo

El investigador de los asesinatos es el fiscal distrital adjunto Félix Chacaltana Saldívar. A él le gusta que lo llamen así, con su título y todo. El fiscal Chacaltana nunca ha hecho nada malo, nunca ha hecho nada bueno, nunca ha hecho nada que no estuviese claramente estipulado en los reglamentos de su institución. Pero ahora va a conocer el horror. Y el horror no se ha leído el código civil.

Abril Rojo

Red April

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 Red April 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 counterinsurgence. 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 society when death becomes the only certainty. Remarkable for its self-assured and nimble clarity of style, Red April is at once riveting and profound.