The Blue Hour

The Blue Hour by Cueto, Alonso. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780434019410.

A stunning, prize-winning novel exploring the aftermath of the Peruvian Civil War, by one of the greatest living South American writers. 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. Adrians 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 Shining Path guerrillas during the terrible Peruvian Civil War of the 1980s, was not quite the hero Adrian had always considered him to be: he routinely had POWs and civilian women raped, tortured and executed. His mothers blackmailer is revealed to be one of the Colonels former subordinates. When Adrian confronts him the man gives him the name of the one