by Roberto Ampuero · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789562474085
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«Pasiones griegas» is the romantic novel by Roberto Ampuero, published by Planeta in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Bruno Garza finds an email from Fabiana announcing that she is leaving him. From his comfortable life as a professor in the Midwest, he sets out on a quest to win her back, while she flees a past marked by family secrets. Without intending to, they both converge on a Greek island where the hope of their love is revived.
Published in 2006, it was recognised in 2008 with the International Latino Book Award for best romantic novel in Spanish.
Aimed at readers of romantic fiction and narrative in Spanish who seek stories about marriage, distance and passion.
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.
