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Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brulé are an international sensation. In The Neruda Case, listeners are introduced to Cayetano as he takes on his first case as a private eye. Set against the fraught political world of pre-Pinochet Chile, Castro's Cuba, and perilous behind-the-Wall East Berlin, this mystery spans countries, cultures, and political ideas, and features one of literature's most beloved figures—Pablo Neruda.Cayetano meets the poet at a party in Chile in the 1970s. The dying Neruda recruits Cayetano to help him solve the last great mystery of his life. As Cayetano fumbles around his first case, finding it hard to embrace the new inspector identity foisted upon him, he begins to learn more about Neruda's hidden agenda. Neruda sends him on a whirlwind expedition around the world, ending back in Chile, where Pinochet's coup plays out against the final revelations of their journey.Evocative, romantic, and full of intrigue, Ampuero's novel is both a glimpse into the life of Pablo Neruda as death approaches and a political thriller that unfolds during the fiercely convulsive end of an era.
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Forget Poirot, Holmes or Marlowe... Ampuero gives his readers some fascinating glimpses of both Neruda and the world he lived in. --The Spectator
It makes for a fascinating and fulfilling flourish of South American noir. --New Statesman
Latin American writers twist the detective novel as a form, Ampuero has twisted it to both be a great detective novel, but also a great piece of biography and also a look at the history and politics at the time of Neruda s life. --Winston s Dad blog
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It makes for a fascinating and fulfilling flourish of South American noir. --New Statesman
Latin American writers twist the detective novel as a form, Ampuero has twisted it to both be a great detective novel, but also a great piece of biography and also a look at the history and politics at the time of Neruda s life. --Winston s Dad blog
Roberto Ampuero is the internationally bestselling, award-winning author of several novels in Spanish, including Nuestros Años Verde Olivo and ¿Quién mató a Cristián Kustermann?
Robertson Dean has recorded hundreds of audiobooks in most every genre. He's been nominated for several Audie Awards, won nine Earphones Awards, and was named one of AudioFile magazine's Best Voices of 2010.
Robertson Dean has recorded hundreds of audiobooks in most every genre. He's been nominated for several Audie Awards, won nine Earphones Awards, and was named one of AudioFile magazine's Best Voices of 2010.
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- PublisherTantor Media Inc
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 145260892X
- ISBN 13 9781452608921
- BindingAudio CD
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