From the perspective of plot, the book keeps you guessing until the end. That gets more difficult-though not impossible-as the number of dead increases. Is that clear?Įveryone is focused on trying to make sure that as few people as possible know that any violence is occurring at all, or that Sendero still exists. Get one thing into your head: in this country there is no terrorism, by orders from the top. Within that, Sendero and the military's fight against it engulfed everyone in death, even while the presence of violence is denied: The narrative takes place just before and during Holy Week, obviously a time of death and resurrection (and there are interesting points made about the intersection of Catholicism and indigenous beliefs). Chacaltana himself is really odd, a combination of Norman Bates and Inspector Clouseau, fastidious but often clueless and with skeletons in his own closet. A chilling, internationally acclaimed political thriller, Red April is a. Read 323 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. It focuses on the fight against Sendero Luminoso in Ayacucho.įélix Chacaltana Saldívar is a prosecutor put in charge of investigating a particularly grisly murder he thinks should be attributed to Sendero, and he starts to unravel a series of killings for which he ultimately starts to feel responsible, because all the people he talks to end up dead. Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo Red April book. Santiago Roncagliolo's Red April: A Novel is a creepy yet engrossing mystery set in Peru in March-April 2000.
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