Red April

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.

About the author

Santiago Roncagliolo

Summary

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.

Foreword

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.

Report

A tour de force Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Santiago Roncagliolo, Santiago (Author) Roncagliolo, Roncagliolo Santiago
• Assisted by: Edith Grossman (Translation), Edith (Translator) Grossman (Translation), Grossman Edith (Translation)
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2018
• EAN: 9781786495402
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-540-2
• Series: Cult Classics; Atlantic Cult Classics; Atlantic Cult Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, Classic crime, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Hispanic & Latino, Crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people