Roberto Ampuero’s The Neruda Case

Crime Travels: Mystery Preview 2012


April 13, 2012 By LJ Reviews

By Kristi Chadwick, Director, Emily Williston Memorial Library, Easthampton, MA



In June, the Penguin Group (USA) imprint is publishing Chilean mystery author Roberto Ampuero’s The Neruda Case.




“Ampuero is already a literary star internationally, but this will be his first time being translated into English,” says Perciasepe. In this political thriller, Ampuero brings an integral piece of Chilean history—the 1973 military coup that violently ended Salvador Allende’s presidency—to life as his protagonist, PI Cayetano Brulé, fumbles through his first investigation, brought to him by the dying Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

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