Red April
By: Santiago Roncagliolo ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936-
Publisher: Atlantic
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781843548317
Subjects: Politics and government; Fiction; Peru. Ejército; Peru; History; Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)
Work titles: Abril rojo
Description: Red April 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 counterinsurgence.
Notes: This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon, 2009; London: Atlantic, 2010.