Roberto Ampuero
CHILE, 1953
Roberto Ampuero is one of the most popular and most successful Chilean authors of the last few years. He is the creator of a brilliant literary saga featuring a character who renovated the Latin American noir novel: detective Cayetano Brulé, the protagonist of the successful series consisting of the novels Who Killed Christian Kusterman?, Boleros in Havana, The German of Atacama, Appointment at the Azul Profundo , Nighthawks and The case Neruda. Brulé, a Chilean detective of Cuban origin, travels the world investigating cases which often take him to his customary haunts: East Berlin, Havana, Prague, Valparaiso and Mexico. In addition to this series, Ampuero has written Our Green Olive Years, an exceptional portrait of disillusionment with the revolutionary utopias of the 1970s, and the celebrated Stockholm Lovers, among others. A graduate of the prestigious International Writers’Workshop (IWP) of the University of Iowa, he teaches literature and creative writing at this same university. He He has lived in Chile, Cuba, Germany, Sweden, and since 2000 in the United States.
"It has been many years since a book caught my attention and touched me in such way this honest, truthful and lucid description of an illusion shared by many Latin-Americans with the Cuban Revolution has done."
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA about Our Olive Green Years
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By Roberto Ampuero
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The Last Tango of Salvador Allende
NOVELA. MONDADORI, 2012
Thirty-five years after taking part in the conspiracy which killed Salvador Allende and overthrew his government, a retired CIA official returns to Santiago de Chile. David's return to his old...
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NOVEL. NORMA/LA OTRA ORILLA, 2010
Isabel, a high class Chilean woman who is conservative and sympathizes with the dictatorship, comes back from her countryside house and finds her husband, a very famous plastic surgeon, dead in...
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NOVEL, 1999. NEW EDITION, 2010
On bestseller lists for weeks, the novel, in addition to being a harsh criticism of the regime in Havana, depicts little-known aspects of the exile experience of the Chilean and Latin American...
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NOVEL, 2008
An old and sick Pablo Neruda has just returned to Chile after leaving his post as ambassador for the government of Salvador Allende in Paris. In a life filled with accomplishments, there remains...
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La historia como conjetura
NON FICTION, 2006
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NOVEL, 2006
Bruno Garza, professor of utopian thought at a quiet university in the American Midwest, awakes one morning to discover that his wife, who he has been cheating on, has left him. So begins a...
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NOVEL, 2005
A group of exiled Cuban dissidents decide to assassinate Fidel Castro. For the job, they have contracted Lucio Ross, an international mercenary who lives in Chiloé. Ross requests absolute...
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Appointment at the Azul Profundo
NOVEL, 2003
In one of his most risky and complex adventures, Brulé traverses recognizable landscapes and places in Chile, Stockholm, Havana and Mexico in the wake of a murder in the Azul Profundo, a...
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NOVEL, 2003
Cristobal Pasos, a writer of police novels living in Stockholm, makes a startling discovery: in one of his wife’s drawers he finds a bag of sexy lingerie which she has never worn for him....
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La guerra de los duraznos
NOVEL FOR YOUNG READERS, 2001
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El hombre golondrina
SHORT STORIES, 1997
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El Alemán de Atacama
NOVEL, 1996
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Boleros en la Habana
NOVEL, 1994
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¿Quién mató a Christian Kustermann?
NOVEL, 1993
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