The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri| Published January 1st 2005 by Editorial Galerna| 320 Pages | Goodreads
✅ REVIEW
After watching this book’s film adaptation (the Argentinian version) three separate times, it was about time I read the novel it was based on.
I absolutely love the film, and now I enjoyed the book. It’s all about the characters, specially that of the main one, Chaparro, and his coworker, Sandoval. In the story, Chaparro is reflecting back on his life and trying to write a book about the brutal murder of a young woman 30 years ago. The novel takes place in Argentina during the late 60s and throughout the 70s and 80s.
I read the book in Spanish which is the original language. I have not read it in English so I don’t know how good the translation is. The original title is THE QUESTION IN THEIR EYES/La Pregunta de sus Ojos, when the movie came out the title was changed.
I enjoyed it and recommend it.
✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
“Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective 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.
As he reaches into the past, Chaparro also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos, 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.”
✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
Loan from Miami-Dade’s Library Overdrive, eBook