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Informationen zum Autor Eduardo Sacheri was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He has published four collections of stories and four novels. The Secret in Their Eyes ! his first novel! has been published in fifteen languages! and the film adaptation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2010. John Cullen is the translator of many books from Spanish! French! German! and Italian! including Margaret Mazzantini's Don't Move! Yasmina Khadra's Middle East Trilogy ! Christa Wolf's Medea and Manuel de Lope's The Wrong Blood . He lives in upstate New York. Klappentext Benjamín Chaparro is a man haunted by his past. A retired detective! he remains obsessed with the decades-old case of the rape and murder of a young woman in her own bedroom.As he revisits the details of the investigation! he is reacquainted with his similarly long! unrequited love for Irene Hornos! then just an intern! now a respected judge.Set in the Buenos Aires of the 1970s! The Secret in Their Eyes reveals the underpinnings of Argentina's Dirty War! and asks what justice really means. And it explores the boundaries of love in all its forms: adoration! devotion and! finally! obsession. Now a major film starring Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman Zusammenfassung 'A startling psychological mystery' Michael Greenberg Benjamín Chaparro is a man haunted by his past. A retired detective! he remains obsessed with the decades-old case of the rape and murder of a young woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the details of the investigation! he is reacquainted with his similarly long! unrequited love for Irene Hornos! then just an intern! now a respected judge. Set in the Buenos Aires of the 1970s! The Secret in Their Eyes reveals the underpinnings of Argentina's Dirty War! and asks what justice really means. And it explores the boundaries of love in all its forms: adoration! devotion and! finally! obsession. ...
