The Nature of Truth

Bronze Award for Multicultural Fiction in ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards

Finalist for Genre Fiction in Housatonic Book Awards

Finalistfor Thriller and Suspense in ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards

Top Ten Best Fiction Books for 2014 by TheLatinoAuthor.com

2014 revised and updated edition: A graduate student at Yale, Helmut Sanchez discovers an ugly truth about his boss, a world-renowned German professor. In a letter written more than fifty years ago, Professor Werner Hopfgartner absolved Austria of any guilt for its participation in the Second World War.

What kind of sick mind would rationalize away the murder of millions of Jews, gypsies and other subversives, Helmut wonders. How can it be that he has been helping, and even admiring, such a person? As the young researcher continues his quest for answers in Austria and Italy, Helmut uncovers even more horrific facts about his boss, which fuels a dangerous obsession for justice. What will Helmut do with the truth he discovers?

But he isn't the only one who hates Hopfgartner. Regina Neumann, a colleague in the department, seeks to nail the aged scholar for his sexual involvement with young co-eds, a sordid practice everyone knows about but ignores. Hopfgartner has also left behind many
former lovers and students. Award-winning author Sergio Troncoso has penned a suspenseful novel that explores right and wrong, good and evil, and the murky borders in between.

"Impressively lucid."
--The Chicago Tribune

"Sergio Troncoso's The Nature of Truth single-handedly redefines the Chicano novel and the literary thriller."
--The El Paso Times

"The Nature of Truth is the best psychological drama I've read in a long time. Like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, the main character descends into a ghost-plagued anxiety where he must discover the nature of truth. He commits the most heinous act, for only by taking action can he relieve his own existential crisis. Fascinating reading."
--Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima

SERGIO TRONCOSO is the author of Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, From this Wicked Patch of Dust and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, which won the Premio Aztlan and the Southwest Book Award. He co-edited Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence. Troncoso received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and two graduate degrees, in international relations and philosophy, from Yale University. He won a Fulbright scholarship to Mexico and was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame. A resident faculty member of the Yale Writers' Conference, he lives and works in New York City.


Genre: Mystery