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Abril rojo (Spanish Edition) Hardcover – April 30, 2007

Spanish Edition by Santiago Roncagliolo (Author)
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IX Premio Alfaguara de NovelaInvestigar un crimen puede llevarte muy lejos. Hasta el infierno.

Siempre quise escribir un thriller, es decir, un policial sangriento con asesinos en serie y crímenes monstruosos. Y encontré los elementos necesarios en la historia de mi país: una zona de guerra, una celebración de la muerte como la Semana Santa, una ciudad poblada de fantasmas. ¿Se puede pedir más? 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. Siempre quise escribir una novela sobre lo que ocurre cuando la muerte se convierte en la única forma de vida. Y aquí está.SantiagoRoncagliolo

Reseñas:«Tiene oficio y una mirada llena de fuerza.» The Times Literary Supplement

«Mucho más que un thriller cargado de suspense... Una novela violenta, perturbadora y teñida de humor negro.» Le Monde diplomatique

«Ecos de la mejor novela peruana se mezclan con ecos de Psicosis de Hitchcock.» Corriere della Sera

«Roncagliolo reinventa el realismo mágico con métodos modernos.» Süddeutsche Zeitung


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Ayacucho, Peru. Celebrations for the 2000 Holy Week are about to commence and local deputy district attorney Félix Chacaltana Saldívar, a romantic fainthearted individual, is about to face the investigation of a brutal murder. This murder marks the beginning of a series of mysterious deaths, where one by one, the people interviewed by him are eliminated. Faced with such horror, he begins to use the non-traditional methods of the Peruvian police and militia. Abril rojo is a novel about Peru’s history and secret codes, a novel about the conflict between the military and the Shinning Path during Fujimori’s term.
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  3. Language
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  4. Publisher
    Punto de Lectura
  5. Publication date
    April 30, 2007
  6. Dimensions
    4.92 x 0.75 x 7.48 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    8466369309
  8. ISBN-13
    978-8466369305
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Con el miedo como eje temático, Santiago Roncagliolo (Lima, 1975) es uno de los novelistas más reconocidos de su generación en lengua española. Ha publicado las novelas negras La pena máxima (Alfaguara, 2014) y Abril rojo (Premio Alfaguara de novela 2006 e Independent Prize of Foreign Fiction), el thriller psicológico Tan cerca de la vida (Alfaguara 2010) y las comedias ácidas Óscar y las mujeres (Alfaguara, 2013) y Pudor (Alfaguara, 2004), esta última llevada al cine. Como periodista, es autor de una trilogía sobre el siglo XX hispano: La cuarta espada, El amante uruguayo y Memorias de una dama. La revista Granta lo seleccionó entre los mejores escritores de su generación. The Wall Street Journal lo nombró uno de los próximos García Márquez. El diario inglés The Guardian colocó Abril rojo entre las grandes novelas escritas sobre el Perú.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Punto de Lectura (April 30, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Spanish
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8466369309
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8466369305
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 0.75 x 7.48 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Jose Gaetano Isola Elias
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book. Recounts through a narrative novel part of ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2015
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Muy buen libro. Relata a través de una novela narrativa una parte de la historia que los Peruanos no quisieramos volver a vivir. Sin embargo, es bueno conocer el pasado para aprender de lo sucedido y no cometer los mismos errores.

Very good book. Recounts through a narrative novel part of the story that the Peruvians would like to relive. No thier is good to know the past to learn from what happened and do not make the same mistakes..........
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Rui Rua
4.0 out of 5 stars Bloody red April indeed.
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016
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This is set in a small Andean city where a crime brings back the fear of a revival of Sendero Luminoso terrorism. The "hero" is an inspector who starts investigating the crime, fighting the bureaucracy and the badwill of the police and army. The recent history of Peru and the cultural difference between the ethnic Indians and the Spanish descendants play a huge part in the plot, which has some gruesome scenes. Santiago Roncagliolo is a gifted writer and the story grabs you and doesn't let go. The characters are three dimensional - no one is innocent -, however I felt the ending was somewhat less credible than the rest of the narrative. In any case, top marks and an excellent reading.
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Fernando Carrascal
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente! Tantas cosas para resaltar, su descripción muy ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2016
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Excelente! Tantas cosas para resaltar, su descripción muy acertada de Ayacucho y cómo vivió el terrorismo, la elaboración del fiscal Chacaltana es impecable, la trama que no deja de sorprender. Altamente recomendable.
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EmilianoCV
3.0 out of 5 stars Buena historia, pero...
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2010
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Buena historia, pero... Santiago Roncagliolo intenta hacer de esta obra, una obra maestra. Historia, novela histórica, política, crímenes seriales, todos los condimentos están allí, pero al final no me convenció. Es un buen libro, seguro una próxima obra del autor será mucho mejor.
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piscosour
4.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2021
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Excelente narrativa
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Victor Hernandez
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent plot
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2019
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very entertaining, good pace, interesting characters.
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CCLL
4.0 out of 5 stars EL fiscal Chacaltana
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2014
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Interesante libro, en algunos momentos se pone intenso con tantas muertes. Tuve que leer por segunda vez algunas pares del libro. Me confundí al principio o tal vez lo leí muy rápido. Hay un asesino, que es la cabeza del monstruo...Chacaltana inocentemente descubre todo...y revive un pasado que lo vivía atormentando..
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2014
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Great book
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miguel g.
5.0 out of 5 stars excelente
Reviewed in Mexico on April 13, 2023
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impactante la semana santa
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Gustavo Moraga Soriano
5.0 out of 5 stars Pünktlich gekommen
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Aufregend, spannend
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FCO. JAVIER DIEZ RAMIREZ
5.0 out of 5 stars Descripción descarnada de Perú
Reviewed in Spain on March 2, 2021
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Me ha parecido un libro escrito de una forma concisa y dura, que describe una parte de Perú que, de ser así, es sinceramente descorazonadora. Un libro descarnado pero con toques de humor e ironía.
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DTAC
4.0 out of 5 stars What a story!
Reviewed in Canada on March 31, 2013
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WOW what a book. This book should be a 4.5 star in my opinion. The author was suggested by a friend and this book hooked me from the first page. The book itself won the Premio Alfaguara de Novela in 2006 and I can see why. This is a tense, political thriller set during Holy Week that Roncagliolo used his own country's recent war with the Shining Path guerrillas as material.

"Red April" begins with the gruesome find of a body burnt beyond recognition as reported by the Assistant Public Prosecutor, Felix Chacaltana Saldivar. Our central character is a young man who is good with his words but oddly lives in his dead mother's house and talks to her frequently. He meets a young woman working as a waitress in a nearby restaurant and they hit it off. When he is sent off to oversee the elections in a remote region, things begin to take a turn for the worse. Chacaltana soon discovers that "whoever he talks with, ends up dead" as the story twists around the events leading to Easter Sunday. This is "one hell of a wild ride story".

One cannot help but compare him to his more famous Peruvian colleague, Mario Vargas Llosa but Roncagliolo has a different style which stands on his own. An amazing read - bravo!
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John S
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book that gives a genuine flavour of Peruvian sense of humour but it also keeps you hook until the very end!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2013
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You start reading this book with a laugh and slowly, slowly it takes you to a part of the Peruvian past history that many want to forget but we cannot since it has caused so much pain in our society. Although the events are fictitious you can imagine this was possible in reality.
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