<p>Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011<br><br><br><br>Red April evokes Holy Week during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in Peru's history, shocking for its corrosive mix of assassination, bribery, intrigue, torture, and enforced disappearance - a war between grim, ideologically driven terrorism and morally bankrupt government counterinsurgence.<br><br><br><br>Mother-haunted, wife-abandoned, literature-loving, quietly eccentr...