by Santiago Roncagliolo · Garzanti · tapa dura · ISBN 9788811685920
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«I delitti della settimana santa» is the mystery and crime novel by Santiago Roncagliolo, published by Garzanti in hardback (277 pages, in Italian).
In Ayacucho, after the carnival, a peasant finds a charred corpse with a cross on its forehead. Prosecutor Félix Chacaltana investigates the case, but the military commanders want to close it before the elections. When more deaths appear with Lent and Holy Week symbols, Chacaltana is dragged into a past of torture and violence.
Winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Originally published as «Abril rojo»; Italian translation by Irina Matilde Bajini.
For readers of mystery and crime novels, with a historical and political setting in Peru during Shining Path.
Santiago Rafael Roncagliolo Lohmann is a Peruvian writer, screenwriter, translator and journalist. He has written five novels about fear. He is also author of a trilogy of non-fiction books on Latin America during the twentieth century.
