| ISBN |
9780285642911 (hardback) |
| Name |
Ampuero, Roberto, 1953- author. |
| Uniform title |
Caso Neruda. English |
| Title |
The Neruda case / Roberto Ampuero ; translated by Carolina De Robertis. |
| Published |
London : Souvenir Press, 2014. |
| ©2012. |
| Description |
340 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
"Originally published in Spanish as El Caso Neruda by La otra orilla/Grupo Norma, Barcelona, Spain"--Provided by publisher. |
| Summary |
In 1970s Chile the world-famous poet Pablo Neruda can sense his impending death, as well as the end of an era in Chilean politics, but there is one final secret he must resolve. Neruda recruits Cayetano Brul, a Cuban migr who has moved to Chile, as his own private Maigret(Neruda lends him Simenons novels as a crash course in the job). Brul travels through Nerudas past and political faiths, retracing the poets life from Cuba to Berlin, while Pinochet moves to take power in Chile and all the poet has believed in is threatened. Evocative and romantic, The Neruda Case spans continents, cultures and the convulsive end of an era and is an intriguing glimpse of Pablo Neruda as well as a gripping political thriller. |
| Subjects |
Neruda, Pablo, -- 1904-1973 -- Fiction |
| Allende Gossens, Salvador, -- 1908-1973 -- Fiction |
| Political fiction |
| Chile -- Politics and government -- 1970-1973 -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Suspense fiction |
| Other Names |
De Robertis, Carolina translator. |
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