by Luis Sepúlveda · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466311403
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«Hot Line» is the suspense novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
George Washington Caucamán, a fast-trigger detective of Mapuche origin, is posted to Santiago de Chile and assigned to the sexual crimes unit. He investigates anonymous calls to an erotic line: the woman who answers them is an exile recently returned to the country, and the threats seem linked to the repression of the dictatorship.
The novel was originally published in 1998; this edition dates from 2003.
For readers of thriller and suspense interested in Latin American narrative and stories with a political backdrop.
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
