Red April /
Santiago Roncagliolo ; translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
- 271 p. ; 22 cm.
Félix Chacaltana Saldívar, a mother-haunted prosecutor from Lima whose wife abandoned him, travels to Ayacucho during a treacherous time in Peru, where he discovers a mutilated corpse, but when the police refuse to cooperate by writing up an official report, Félix is thrust into a central role on a murder investigation.