by Peter Straub · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440609885
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«Koko» is the psychological horror novel by Peter Straub, published by Ediciones B in hardcover (616 pages, in Spanish).
Four Vietnam War veterans reunite when a serial killer begins recreating crimes inspired by their shared past. The investigation drags them back into the horror of the conflict and confronts them with traumas and secrets they thought buried, in a narrative where the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
First installment of the Blue Rose Trilogy. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1989. Translated by Hernán Sabaté.
Recommended for readers of psychological horror and thrillers with a wartime backdrop, and for admirers of Peter Straub.
Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko (1988), Mystery (1990) and The Throat (1993). He fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) and the related In the Night Room (2004). For the Library of America, he edited the volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology American Fantastic Tales. Straub received such literary honors as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.
