The Neruda Case - Roberto Ampuero

In 1970s Chile Pablo Neruda, the Nobel-prize winning poet, is close to death, and senses the end of an era in Chilean politics but there is one final secret he must resolve. "Many things: a biography of Pablo Neruda; a portrait of pre-coup Chile; an international thriller." Independent Neruda recruits Cayetano Brulé, a young Cuban rogue, as his "own private Maigret" and lends Brulé the novels of Simenon as a crash course in the role of private detective. Brulé must travel across the world, through Neruda's past and the political faiths he has espoused, retracing the poet's life from Fidel Castro's Cuba to Berlin, Mexico City to Bolivia. Brulé desperately tries to fulfil Neruda's final request amid the brutal beginning of Pinochet's dictatorship while all that the poet once believed in is swept away. "In its evocation of a complicated era in Chile's history and its portrait, albeit fictionalized, of a complicated man, it succeeds in being much more than just a mystery novel." Tribune Evocative and romantic, The Neruda Case spans uneasy peace and political coup, and Latin America's uncertainties, venality and corruption. This is the first English language translation of Roberto Ampuero's atmospheric Brulé detective novels and brings South American noir to a new audience. Historical fiction Soft cover Like brand new

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