In the last few years, the same things have happened in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Army and terrorists were killing so many people that they were hardly different from each other. As a Peruvian, I was raised in a society where 70,000 people died during the eighties. I also wanted to write about war, or at least, about the scars from war. Serial killers puts readers or spectators in touch with their darkest and most animal impulses, while making an intriguing plot. In particular, I’ve always loved serial killer thrillers, like David Fincher’s Seven or Allan Moore's From Hell. As the New York Times declares, “Lima is once again one of Latin America’s brightest literary scenes.” Amazon Exclusive: Santiago Roncagliolo on Red April
Stunning for its self-assured and nimble clarity of style-reminiscent of classic noir fiction-the inexorable momentum of its plot, and the moral complexity of its concerns, Red April is at once riveting and profound, informed as it is by deft artistry in the shaping of conflict between competing venalities. 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. But, inexplicably, he has been put in charge of a bizarre and horrible murder investigation. Until now he has lived a life in which nothing exceptionally good or bad has ever happened to him.
Mother-haunted, wife-abandoned, literature-loving, quietly eccentric Felix Chacaltana Saldivar is a hapless, by-the-book, unambitious prosecutor living in Lima. 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. 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.
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