The Secret in Their Eyes
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Benjamín Chaparro is a retired law clerk still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the investigation, recalling along the way the major players: Pablo Sandoval, Chaparro’s erratic yet brilliant partner; Ricardo Morales, the deceased woman’s husband, who never recovered from the tragedy; and Isidoro Gomez, the sickeningly obsessive suspect with whom Chaparro feels an uneasy kinship. As he reaches into the past, Chaparro also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene, then just an intern, now a respected judge. Set in the Buenos Aires of the 1970s, Sacheri’s tale reveals the underpinnings of Argentina’s Dirty War and takes on the question of justice—what it really means and in whose hands it belongs. This haunting crime thriller also explores the boundaries of love in all its forms: adoration, devotion and obsession.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Argentinian author Sacheri's beguiling novel, the basis for the 2010 Academy Award winning film El secreto de sus ojos, Benjam n Chaparro, a recently retired deputy clerk for Argentina's investigative court, sets out to write a novel about a case that has haunted him for decades: the 1968 rape and murder of a beautiful young woman, Liliana Colotto. Chaparro's original investigation into the case became so dangerous that he was forced to flee Buenos Aires until the "Dirty War" officially ended in 1983. Since Liliana's murder, her devastated widower, Ricardo Morales, has devoted his life to exacting vengeance on his wife's killer and on the corrupt political machine that enabled the killer to go free. Chaparro's own unrequited love for Irene Hornos, once an intern and now a powerful judge, gives the Morales case an added resonance. Extracts from Chaparro's novel in progress blur the line between fiction, reportage, and memoir, as do the other parts of this complex and engaging narrative.
