The Blue Hour

Alonso Cueto · 2005 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

A Lima lawyer learns after his father's death that the army officer had kept a captured Shining Path woman as his lover in Ayacucho. He sets out to find her and learn what happened. It won the Premio Herralde and looks at how Peru's war lives on in its respectable families.

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