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• Winner of INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2011 (UK)

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Riveting... As the moral line dissolves between terrorist and counter-terrorist... Edith Grossman's versatile translation spans hard-boiled noir, punctilious legalese, and the illiterate scrawls of a would-be serial killer... Red April is rooted in Peru's past and present, but resonates far beyond. * Guardian * Violence stalks the pages of this... sophisticated work of terrifying cunning; here is a novel to make one gasp and wonder anew at the furtive extremes of human behaviour... A dark and almost unhinged display * Irish Times * The meticulous documenting of barbarities, magical beliefs, the colourful details of Holy Week... rites of blood and torture... the extreme cynicism of government... The terrible story of a society without hope. * Independent on Sunday *

Violence stalks the pages... A dark and almost unhinged display * Irish Times * The terrible story of a society without hope * Independent * Riveting... Red April is rooted in Peru's past and present, but resonates far beyond * Guardian * A tour de force * Times Literary Supplement *

Riveting... Red April is rooted in Peru's past and present, but resonates far beyond. * Guardian * The meticulous documenting of barbarities, magical beliefs, the colourful details of Holy Week... rites of blood and torture... the extreme cynicism of government... The terrible story of a society without hope. * Independent * Violence stalks the pages... Here is a novel to make one gasp and wonder anew at the furtive extremes of human behaviour... A dark and almost unhinged display * Irish Times * A tour de force... Red April is at once a serial-killer thriller in the tradition of The Silence of the Lambs and a more searching examination of a country's darker side. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Santiago Roncagliolo has been a screenwriter, investigative journalist and political adviser. He was born in Lima, Peru, and currently lives in Barcelona. Edith Grossman is the award-winning translator of such masterworks as Cervantes's Don Quixote and Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.

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