Divine punishment
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Sergio Ramírez ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, with Hebe Powell ; with an afterword by the author and a note by the translator
Contributors: Caistor, Nick, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: McPherson & Company
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781620540145
Subjects: Fiction; Trials (Murder); History
Work titles: Castigo Divino
Description: Sergio Ramriez transforms the most celebrated criminal trial in Nicaraguan history--the murders in 1933 of three high society women by a Casanova named Castaneda--into an examination of Nicaraguan society on the brink of the first Somosa dictatorship, where passion, money, sex, gossip, political intrigue and judicial corruption all merge.
Notes: Translated from the Spanish.