The Neruda Case: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “The twists and turns of the quest through Mexico City, Havana, East Berlin, and La Paz deftly weave the personal and the political in a doleful exploration of the ways in which romantic and revolutionary ideals inevitably founder. Neruda himself…is unforgettably conjured.”

  — New Yorker

• [Listen to] this one as much for the story as for the wonderful way Ampuero has with words.

  — Publishers Weekly Starred Review

• “The summer’s most evocative fiction.”

  — T, The New York Times Style Magazine

• “Ampuero offers a provocative depiction of Neruda….Although The Neruda Case is a prequel for his international readers, here in the United States, it should be a prologue for more novels from this shrewd and serious-minded novelist.”

  — Washington Post

• “The book is often wryly funny, even in the face of tragedy…Let’s hope that more books in Ampuero’s Brulé series find an English-speaking audience.”

  — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

• “Ampuero, a University of Iowa professor, is highly regarded in South America, and US readers looking for good literary detective fiction might find themselves falling in love with Cayetano Brulé.”

  — NPR

• “Mix ever-tightening suspense, South American history, the fictional treatment of a major world poet, revolutionary turmoil, and a reluctant sleuth and you’ve got a novel that is hard to put down and easy to remember…Ampuero’s prose, as rendered in the translation of Carolina de Robertis, is brilliant…To call his book a noir thriller does not begin to suggest the sophistication and richness of this gorgeously textured novel.” ­

  — Washington Independent Review of Books

• “A superb translation by Carolina de Robertis whips the first of Ampuero’s novels to be published in English into a pulsing, panting work.”

  — Daily Beast

• “A suspenseful, atmospheric mystery…The English-speaking world would be well-served by more translations of Ampuero’s work.”

  — Shelf Awareness

• “A moving fictional interpretation of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda’s final days … sings with poetic metaphor…Read this one as much for the story as for the wonderful way Ampuero has with words.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Robertson Dean’s superb narration brings the first English translation of the noted Chilean author’s body of work to listeners in the United States…The story deftly weaves the last days of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda’s life and of President Salvador Allende’s a rule in Chile in a masterful work of literary detective fiction…Dean easily navigates his narration through a variety of characters and accents, whether Cuban, Chilean, or German, and captures the pain in Cayetano’s heart as Allende’s rule crumbles and Neruda succumbs to cancer.”

  — AudioFile