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Divine punishment / a novel by Sergio Ramírez ; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, with Hebe Powell ; with an afterword by the author and a note by the translator.
Van Pelt Library PQ7519.2.R25 C3713 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramírez, Sergio, 1942- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Castigo Divino. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Murder).
- León (Nicaragua)--History--Fiction.
- León (Nicaragua).
- Trials (Murder)--Nicaragua--Fiction.
- Nicaragua.
- Nicaragua--León.
- Genre:
- Legal stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 512 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, New York : McPherson & Company, 2015.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- Sergio Ramriez transforms the most celebrated criminal trial in Nicaraguan history--the murders in 1933 of three high society women by a Casanova named Castaneda--into an examination of Nicaraguan society on the brink of the first Somosa dictatorship, where passion, money, sex, gossip, political intrigue and judicial corruption all merge.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1620540142
- 9781620540145
- OCLC:
- 903436604
- Publisher Number:
- 99964007588
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