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100 1 $aCueto, Alonso,$d1954-
240 10 $aHora azul.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe blue hour /$cAlonso Cueto ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
260 $aLondon :$bWilliam Heinemann,$c2012.
300 $a312 pages ;$c23 cm
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546 $aTranslated from the Spanish.
520 $aThis is a novel that explores the aftermath of the Peruvian Civil War. Adrian Ormache is a prosperous lawyer living in Lima. He has the perfect life: a great career, beautiful wife, two doting and intelligent daughters. But when his mother dies, a series of events devastate his entire view of the past, his parents, and his country. Adrian's mother leaves a letter indicating that she was being blackmailed. Confused, Adrian talks to his brother, who tells him that their long dead father Colonel Ormache, who led military operations against the guerrillas during the terrible Peruvian Civil War of the 1980's, was not quite the hero Adrian had always considered him to be: he routinely had POWs and civilian women raped, tortured and executed. His mother's blackmailer is revealed to be one of the Colonel's former subordinates. When Adrian confronts him the man gives him the name of the one prisoner whom the Colonel spared and kept as a lover, Miriam. Adrian becomes obsessed with finding Miriam. His search is cathartic and all-consuming, a journey that takes him into a country that is a far-cry from the stable, civilised Lima he is used to, a people still haunted by a harrowing, ongoing war, and some truths about his family that he could never have imagined. This is literary fiction with definite crossover elements: family secrets; an obsessive love affair; the brutality, misery and guilt of war; an intrigued and intriguing anti-hero searching for answers.
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