Roberto Ampuero – författare

In 1970''s Chile Pablo Neruda, the Nobel-prize winning poet, is close to death, and he senses the end of an era in Chilean politics but there is one final secret he must resolve. He recruits Cayetano Brulé, a young Cuban rogue, as his "own private Maigret" and lends Brulé the novels of Simenon as a crash course in the role of private detective. Brulé must travel across the world, through Neruda''s past and the political faiths he has espoused, retracing the poet''s life from Fidel Castro''s Cuba to Berlin, Mexico City to Bolivia. Brulé desperately tries to fulfil Neruda''s final request amid the brutal beginning of Pinochet''s dictatorship while all the poet once believed in is swept away. Evocative and romantic, The Neruda Case spans lies and truth, travelling between uneasy peace and political coup, from life to death. Brulé, a daydreamer and reluctant detective, is lost among Latin America''s uncertainties, venality and corruption while his first case introduces one of the great characters of international crime fiction. Among the pleasures of The Neruda Case is its provocative fictional portrait of Pablo Neruda, as the poet re-evaluates his life and begins to question abandoning those he loved for his poetry. This is the first English language translation of Roberto Ampuero''s atmospheric Brulé detective novels and brings South American noir to a new audience.

Ninguno de los comandantes en jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas chilenas responde en su domicilio la mañana del 11 de septiembre de 1973. Todo indica que el golpe de Estado está en marcha. Salvador Allende se dirige al Palacio de La Moneda. Y Rufi no, asistente personal del presidente, viejo compañero en un taller anarquista y gran amante del tango, afi ción que comparte con el mandatario, escribe en un cuaderno escolar la historia de la tragedia que se avecina.Muchos años después, ya derrumbados los muros de la Guerra Fría, el mismo cuaderno ve la luz cuando inesperadamente llega a las manos de David Kurtz, ex agente de la CIA, quien a través de sus páginas irá descubriendo no solo la vida íntima del presidente, sino también secretos inimaginables de su propio pasado. Con talento y maestría, Roberto Ampuero nos entrega una novela apasionante sobre la lealtad y la traición, la honestidad y la impudicia, el amor y el desamor, el bien y el mal que anidan en el alma y la historia de los hombres.

This book is the latest volume in the popular ""Hispanic Issues"" series. The volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes.

This book is the latest volume in the popular ""Hispanic Issues"" series. The volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes.