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Red april by santiago roncagliolo
Red april by santiago roncagliolo












(.) Look beyond the cadavers on the coroner's slab and you see a murdered and mutilated body politic, a country sunk in cynicism and lies. Suspense builds excruciatingly against the great festive crescendo that is Ayacucho's Holy Week, with its heady mix of iconography and emotion. "The killer is writing a richly allusive text, then, but it is one to which Roncagliolo is fully capable of doing justice: the second half of this novel is a tour de force.Dass Roter April nicht wirklich als gelungen bezeichnet werden kann, liegt nicht an der methodischen Verwendung von Genre-Elementen, sondern an der Figurengestaltung." - Leopold Federmair, Neue Zürcher Zeitung Die Sprache erinnert häufig an Hard-boiled-Krimis, mitsamt Klischees und Trivialitäten. "Roncagliolo zieht die Fäden des Thrillers recht geschickt, er legt jede Menge falsche Fährten, um die Neugier des Lesers wachzuhalten.

red april by santiago roncagliolo

In a direct, easy style, Roncagliolo uses the techniques of a police procedural thriller to tell the terrible story of a society without hope." - Michael Eaude, Independent on Sunday

  • " Red April, faithfully translated by Edith Grossman, can be better read as a courageous investigation of an all-too-real contemporary reality.
  • (.) In hinting at how impunity is perpetuated in a fog of lies, and how means corrupt ends in a war on terror, Red April is rooted in Peru's past and present, but resonates far beyond." - Maya Jaggi, The Guardian
  • "Edith Grossman's versatile translation spans hard-boiled noir, punctilious legalese, and the illiterate scrawls of a would-be serial killer.
  • Dem peruanischen Schriftsteller waren die Details aus der tragischen Geschichte seines Landes zu wichtig, um sie nicht ausführlich und differenziert darzustellen." - Walter Haubrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Das Buch wird erst im letzten Teil zu einer spannenden Lektüre.

    red april by santiago roncagliolo

    "Für einen Kriminalroman ist die Erzählhandlung zu ungeschickt konstruiert.Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner, 2011ī : interesting political/social/cultural thriller.Abril rojo was awarded the Premio Alfaguara de Novela, 2006.

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