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e-Book The Blue Hour download

e-Book The Blue Hour download

by Alonso Cueto

ISBN: 0434019410
ISBN13: 978-0434019410
Language: English
Publisher: Random House UK; First Edition ~1st Printing edition (June 1, 2012)
Pages: 320
Category: Genre Fiction
Subategory: Literature

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The Blue Hour (La Hora Azul) is a 2005 novel by Peruvian novelist Alonso Cueto.

The Blue Hour (La Hora Azul) is a 2005 novel by Peruvian novelist Alonso Cueto. First published in English in 2012, it was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize the following year

Alonso Cueto Caballero (born 1954 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian author, university professor and newspaper columnist. His writing career has spanned nearly four decades, during which he has produced dozens of works of fiction, articles and essays

Alonso Cueto Caballero (born 1954 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian author, university professor and newspaper columnist. His writing career has spanned nearly four decades, during which he has produced dozens of works of fiction, articles and essays. He has won numerous accolades for his work, and several of his novels have been adapted for film. Born: Alonso Cueto Caballero. April 30, 1954 (age 64). Lima, Peru. Occupation: Writer, professor. Nationality: Peruvian. Genre: Novel, short story, essay, drama.

Alonso Cueto is an award-winning Peruvian novelist, playwright, journalist, and professor of journalism. His novel The Blue Hour won the Herralde Prize, which promotes new works of Spanish literature. Start reading The Blue Hour on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Cueto, like other Peruvian writers of his generation, captures ten years of unrest and terrorism with tempered maturity. Frank Wynne's translation does justice to the author's urbane prose. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view.

Alonso Cueto Caballero is a Peruvian novelist and playwright. Cueto's novel La Hora Azul/The Blue Hour won the Herralde Prize in 2006. His novel El tigre blanco, published in 1985, was awarded the Premio Wiracocha. it was published in English in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2013 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize In 2007, Cueto also collaborated with the highly acclaimed radio program "Mi Novela Favorita".

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The Blue Hour is a magnificent novel that describes ten years of civil war and terrorism with lucidity and resonant . Alonso Cueto’s fine, prize-winning debut novel stands in that tradition. The conflation of Adrian’s personal trauma with his nation’s dark history is beautifully, delicately done.

The Blue Hour is a magnificent novel that describes ten years of civil war and terrorism with lucidity and resonant fantasy. One of the major novelists of his generation. The strength of the plot pivots on the lovers’ ambiguous feelings for one another: the intensity of their mismatched love and hatred is perfectly drawn. Cueto evokes the myriad of emotion. lausibly and effectivel. ueto manages to explore that quest both imaginatively and provocatively.

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Can a son be forgiven for the sins of his father?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. Adrian's 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 1980's, was not quite the hero Adrian had always considered him to be: he routinely had POWs and civilian women raped, tortured, and executed. His mother's blackmailer is revealed to be one of the Colonel's former subordinates. When Adrian confronts him the man gives him the name of the one prisoner whom the Colonel spared and kept as a lover—Miriam. Adrian becomes obsessed with finding Miriam. His search is cathartic and all-consuming, a journey that takes him into a country that is a far-cry from the stable, civilized Lima he's used to, a people still haunted by a harrowing, ongoing war, and some truths about his family—and himself—that he could never have imagined.
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Blackseeker
The Blue Hour is one of those hidden gems you find once in a decade. Hard to believe, but there’s just one cursory review on Amazon. Perhaps because it’s the only book the author has published in English. But if you want to add a wonderful novelist to your library, turn your eyes toward Lima, Peru, where Alonso Cueto writes and teaches journalism at the Catholic University of Peru.

The Blue Hour is both a psychological thriller and a story of love and irredeemable loss. When his mother dies, Adrian Ormache, a successful Lima lawyer, finds a letter indicating that she was being blackmailed for crimes his father committed. He learns that his father, an army colonel, was responsible for horrible torture during the war against the Shining Path, the leftist revolutionary group that plagued Peru in the 1980s. Adrian barely knows his father, who has been divorced from his mother since he was a child. But after he finds the blackmailer, a former lieutenant of his father’s, he’s told about one prisoner the Colonel spared and kept as a lover — a young girl named Miriam.

The Blue Hour tells the story of Adrian’s heart-rending, sometimes heart-pounding, search for Miriam and his attempt to right the wrongs his father committed. In the process, he learns about a Peru that’s a thousand light years removed from the civilized Lima he grew up in, a Peru that’s still haunted by a war that destroyed families and continues to destroy years after it’s over. When Adrian enters this unfamiliar world, he also dredges up some deep, unsettling secrets about himself.

Alonso Cueto is one of those rare writers who can grab you from the first page and hold you to the very end. The Blue Hour is not to be missed.

Melipra
alonso cueto delivers a smooth, intriguing tale of family, estrangement, bewilderment, and truth-searching. a thoroughly enjoyable read, the blue hour should appeal to a diverse and demanding audience

Zicelik
Not a bad read !!! Great story..well written. Slow start but once rolling keeps your attention .Quirky !!
Not familiar with author . Our book club pick.Very well received.

Grotilar
The Blue Hour is one of those hidden gems you find once in a decade. Hard to believe, but there’s just one cursory review on Amazon. Perhaps because it’s the only book the author has published in English. But if you want to add a wonderful novelist to your library, turn your eyes toward Lima, Peru, where Alonso Cueto writes and teaches journalism at the Catholic University of Peru.

The Blue Hour is both a psychological thriller and a story of love and irredeemable loss. When his mother dies, Adrian Ormache, a successful Lima lawyer, finds a letter indicating that she was being blackmailed for crimes his father committed. He learns that his father, an army colonel, was responsible for horrible torture during the war against the Shining Path, the leftist revolutionary group that plagued Peru in the 1980s. Adrian barely knows his father, who has been divorced from his mother since he was a child. But after he finds the blackmailer, a former lieutenant of his father’s, he’s told about one prisoner the Colonel spared and kept as a lover — a young girl named Miriam.

The Blue Hour tells the story of Adrian’s heart-rending, sometimes heart-pounding, search for Miriam and his attempt to right the wrongs his father committed. In the process, he learns about a Peru that’s a thousand light years removed from the civilized Lima he grew up in, a Peru that’s still haunted by a war that destroyed families and continues to destroy years after it’s over. When Adrian enters this unfamiliar world, he also dredges up some deep, unsettling secrets about himself.

Alonso Cueto is one of those rare writers who can grab you from the first page and hold you to the very end. The Blue Hour is not to be missed.

Uickabrod
Alonso Cueto's novel centers around the mid-life crisis of "Adrian", a handsome Limeñan lawyer from the affluent the district of San Isidro, who becomes obsessed with finding a mixed race country girl from his father's dark military past.
This book is absolutely engaging, geographically, and socially right on target. Despite the graphic descriptions of atrocities attributed to the military as well as the Sendero during the times of terrorism, the story is so believeable that it grabs hold of you and won't let go. I literally couldn't put it down.
Everywhere we live, drive, the restaurants where we dine, the lovely parks near our homes, even the slums where we never go, are all described in such detail that it is if the reader is sitting right beside Adrian. In my mind, I am still driving around town with him!
Adrian's quest for the truth tears away the veneer of polite society and forces us to stare into the irreparable consequences of absolute power. In the end, Adrean deals with the fundamental question of what it means to be part of a family, the burdens of decisions made by a father he hardly knew, and makes his own feeble attempts to correct past wrongs.
If you have any connection with Lima, or have known anyone who does, this book is a must read.

Marg
Peru was traumatized by 20 years of terrorism under the Shining Path, when nearly 70,000 people died. Alonso Cueto takes a keen interest in the conflict from an unusual angle: alleged brutality by the army against innocent civilians. It takes courage to write fiction about events that many would prefer to sweep under the carpet. A great, thrilling read, from one of Latin America's best modern writers.

Fesho
Beautifully written. The character and his fascinations made no sense to me, but maybe that was the idea. Made me think of my visit to Peru!

Great book and an outstanding price.

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