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The Red Masks of Montevideo is a novel that spans the history of the tiny South American republic called Uruguay. From the early years of Spanish settlement in the 16th century to modern-day 1970's Montevideo when the country was going through violent, political turmoil. It is a tale of passion and carnage, of its people and places, of the legends that form the psyche of a nation painted over the canvas of time's passing.
If you really wish to understand Uruguay, then this book is a must.
This book will be published as an ebook in January 2019. The paperback was published in October 2018 in the Amazon store and in local bookshops and libraries in Birmingham, UK.
THE OFFICE
Pietro ‘Peter’ Abate had taken the job on a whim. Brought up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the Italian-born cop had joined the police force just out of high school and had worked his way up. The FBI followed, where he spent some years in Austria and West Berlin shadowing the Stasi, working for the International Cooperation Administration. His next assignment was in Brazil. In 1964, Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, followed, where Abate was robbed, shot, and left for dead. He ended up a lucky man: a punctured lung and grazed neck was the worst of it. Suffering never went unrewarded, however, and due to his good record on the continent, he had now been seconded to Uruguay, to oversee President Jorge Pacheco Areco’s Colorado Party’s struggle against the leftist urban guerrilla movement for the covert Office of Public Safety, or OPS for short.
Abate had brought his family with him, a wife of twenty years and three young children. For the Italian-American Abate, Montevideo was a Latin wonderland, much like the town of his birth, Cagliari, in Sardinia.
He had already had his two-week settling in period, finding himself a house and schools for the children. Now, though, he was ready for his first day at work.
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Italian
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Already translated.
Translated by Federica Piano
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Author review: Federica did a great job of translating the book 'The Red Masks of Montevideo' into Italian. I recommend her for other translations as she is easy to work with, reliable, hardworking and has a talent for transferring English into literary, readable Italian. |
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Portuguese
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Already translated.
Translated by Gabriela Gazzi
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Author review: Very well translated from the English original. Gabriela is a pleasure to work with. |
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Spanish
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Already translated.
Translated by María Graciela López
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Author review: Graciela is a pleasure to work with. She is punctual, diligent, sensitive to the text in front of her and a great translator. I cannot rate her highly enough |
