by Roberto Ampuero · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789563250954
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«El caso Neruda» is the crime novel by Roberto Ampuero, published by Debolsillo in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
In Chile on the eve of the coup d'état, Pablo Neruda commissions the Cuban detective Cayetano Brulé, whom he met in Valparaíso, to find a woman who has obsessed him since youth. The search takes Brulé to Mexico, Cuba, East Germany and Bolivia and ends up transforming his life, amid poetry, love and a truth that seemed buried.
It is the sixth installment in the Cayetano Brulé detective series. The edition is from 2012.
For readers of crime plots with historical and literary atmosphere, especially those who follow the Cayetano Brulé installments.
Roberto Ampuero is a Chilean author, columnist, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, a position he held from March 11, 2018 to June 13, 2019. His first novel ¿Quién mató a Kristián Kustermann? was published in 1993 and in it he introduced his private eye, Cayetano Brulé, winning the Revista del Libro prize of El Mercurio. Since then the detective has appeared in five novels. In addition he has published an autobiographical novel about his years in Cuba titled Nuestros Años Verde Olivo (1999) and the novels Los Amantes de Estocolmo ) and Pasiones Griegas. His novels have been published in Latin America and Spain, and have been translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, and English. In Chile his works have sold more than 40 editions. Ampuero now resides in Iowa where he is a professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was a columnist of La Tercera and the New York Times Syndicate and since March 2009 has been working as a columnist for El Mercurio. Between 2013 and 2014 he was Minister of Culture in the government of Sebastián Piñera.
