Divine Punishment by Caistor, Nick & translator & Sergio Ramirez - 2015

McPherson & Company. As New in New dust jacket. 2015. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1620540142 . This specific hardback book is in like new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, and uncreased with the ONLY defect of the book being a small date stamped on the top outside edge of the pages. The dust jacket is in fine condition with little wear if any. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers. ; "Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor with Hebe Powell. Upon its original publication, Carlos Fuentes declared Divine Punishment to be the quintessential Central American novel. In this, the greatest work of a storied literary career, Sergio Ramírez transforms the most celebrated criminal trial in Nicaraguan history the alleged murders in 1933 of two high society women and his employer by a social-climbing bon vivant named Oliverio Castañeda into an examination of the entire Nicaraguan society at the brink of the first Somosa dictatorship. Passion, money, sex, gossip, political intrigue, medical malpractice and judicial corruption all merge into a novel that reads like a courtroom drama wrapped in yellow journalism disguised as historical fiction posing as a scandal of the first order."; 5.9 X 1.5 X 8.5 inches; 516 pages .