Red April - Ausgezeichnet: INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2011
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| Verlag | Atlantic Books |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 2,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 293 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Atlantic Cult Classics 6 |
| Übersetzer | Edith Grossman |
| ISBN-10 | 1786495406 |
| EAN | 9781786495402 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78649540UA |
The international prize-winner: A potent exploration of Peru, told as a noirish, hard-boiled serial killer novel, reissued in a stylish new livery as part of Atlantic's Cult Classics series.
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...
Félix Chacaltana Saldívar 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, Saldívar 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.
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