The Blue Hour

Zusatztext

<p>Adrián Ormache, a high-flying lawyer with a beautiful wife and two daughters, leads a privileged and glamorous life in one of Limas wealthiest neighbourhoods. But when his mother dies, he discovers a letter amongst her possessions making shocking claims about her now long-dead husband, Adriáns father a commander in the army during the Peruvian Civil War of the 1980s. As well as being linked to atrocities committed against the Shining Path guerrillas, it appears that he also kidnapped and kept a local girl, whose family now seeks retribution.</p><p>Shocked out of his comfortable existence, Adrián becomes obsessed with finding the girl at the heart of the mystery, and sets out to face the harrowing realities of Perus recent past, and uncover the truth about his father.</p>

Autorenportrait

Born in Lima, Peru, in 1954, Alonso Cueto spent his childhood in Paris and Washington, returning to Lima at the age of seven. He studied literature at the Universidad Católica del Perú and later at the University of Texas, Austin. In 1985 he married Kristin Keenan Atwood, with whom he has two children. He lives in Lima.

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