Divine Punishment by Sergio Ramírez (.PDF)
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Divine Punishment by Sergio Ramírez, Nick Caistor (Translator), Hebe Powell (Translator)
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Overview: In this celebrated novel, Sergio Ramirez transforms the most famous criminal trial in Nicaraguan history— the alleged murders in 1933 of two high society women and his employer by a Casanova named Oliverio Castañeda into an examination of Nicaraguan society on the brink of the first Somosa dictatorship. Passion, money, sex, gossip, political intrigue, medical malpractice, police interference and judicial corruption all merge into a novel that reads like a courtroom drama wrapped in yellow journalism disguised as historical fiction fronting a political scandal of the first order.
“Divine Punishment is a darkly comic detective novel set in León in 1933. A stranger comes to town with all the latest fox-trot records and is welcomed into the hearts and beds of the mother and two daughters of the most respectable family in town. Soon the young wife and the paterfamilias drop dead, apparently poisoned. Justice has nothing to do with power, as the young investigative judge sent from the capital soon finds out. A ripping good read…”
— JOHN OLIVER SIMON
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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