The Blue Hour (book)

The Blue Hour (La Hora Azul) is a 2005 novel by Peruvian novelist Alonso Cueto.[1] It won the Premio Herralde de Novela for Spanish language novels in 2006. First published in English in 2012, it was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize the following year.

The Blue Hour
AuthorAlonso Cueto
Original titleLe Hora Azul
CountryPeru
LanguageSpanish
GenrePolitical thriller
PublisherWilliam Heinemann
Publication date
2005
Published in English
2012
ISBN9780434019410 (English H/B)
Followed byGrandes Miradas (2006) 

The story concerns a successful lawyer from Lima, and his search for a woman who he discovers had been kidnapped and held as a virtual sex slave by his now deceased father, a former military officer, during the war against the Shining Path guerrilla organization in the hinterland of Peru.[2] Although ostensibly a political thriller, it is also a story of redemption and an attempt by the protagonist to disperse some of the ghosts haunting his country after years of internal strife.[3]

References
  1. "Login". bl.uk.
  2. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-review-the-blue-hour-by-alonso-cueto-8679002.html
  3. "The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto". worldliteraturetoday.org.
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