by Roberto Ampuero · Planeta · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789562473231
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«Los amantes de Estocolmo» is the novel by Chilean writer Roberto Ampuero, published by Planeta in 2004 in paperback (307 pages, in Spanish).
The story takes place between Stockholm and Santiago de Chile: a private detective investigates the disappearance of a young woman and, as it progresses, secrets of the past come to light. Love, exile and redemption intertwine in a plot of intrigue and suspense.
Edition published in Santiago de Chile; the cover corresponds to the 6th edition, with 20,000 copies.
For readers of detective novels and intrigue stories with an exile backdrop.
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.
