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The war against the Shining Path is over. Yet when a charred and mutilated body is discovered during the annual Holy Week, the people of Ayacucho understand that death has once more returned to their land. Only this time the terror emanates not from the government death squads, nor from the guerrillas in the mountains, but from a single source. A serial murderer. Now everyone is afraid AND suspect.

Red April received the Premio Alfaguara, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world, in 2006. It is the most realistic account of the cruel, bloody and terrifying period (roughly 1980-2000) in which the Maoist guerrilla movement Shining Path spread their rule over Peru's mountain areas.