by Roberto Ampuero · Montena · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789568474232
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«La guerra de los duraznos» is the adventure novel by Roberto Ampuero, published by Montena in paperback (212 pages, in Spanish).
In the summer of 1974, some children and their dog find Lautaro, a wounded peasant who is fleeing and does not want to be handed over to the police, in the hills of Valparaíso. The kids decide to help him and get caught up in a dangerous adventure that tests their solidarity and courage in the turbulent Chile of the time.
A novel to read and share with young people, combining adventure and friendship with the Chilean historical context.
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.
