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| Castigo Divino |
By far the best novel by this former vice-president of Nicaragua. Set in the Nicaraguan city of León in the 1930s, and based on a true story, this ripping good read is a darkly comic detective novel about the case of Oliverio Castaneda, a stranger who comes to town and is welcomed into the hearts and beds of the mother and two daughters of a highly respectable family. Soon the young wife and the paterfamilias drop dead, apparently poisoned. The convoluted affair (still used as a case study in Central American law schools) was never solved, and Ramírez cagily leaves it open-ended. Hilarious, riveting, beautifully constructed and written.
Recommended by Dan Bellm and John Oliver Simon.
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