by Roberto Ampuero · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408023142
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«Boleros en la Habana» is the detective novel by Roberto Ampuero, published by Planeta in paperback (306 pages, in Spanish).
Cayetano Brulé, a detective of Cuban origin, travels to Havana hired by an old bolero singer to recover half a million dollars. The investigation uncovers a network of mobsters with branches in the Caribbean, Europe and Chile, and leads him to a congressman and a toy factory. Paloma Matamoros, star of the Tropicana, complicates the case.
Second installment of the Cayetano Brulé series, published in 1997.
For readers of crime fiction who enjoy a charismatic detective and a plot that moves between Chile, Cuba and Europe.
Roberto Ampuero is a Chilean author, columnist, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, a position he held from March 11, 2018 to June 13, 2019. His first novel ¿Quién mató a Kristián Kustermann? was published in 1993 and in it he introduced his private eye, Cayetano Brulé, winning the Revista del Libro prize of El Mercurio. Since then the detective has appeared in five novels. In addition he has published an autobiographical novel about his years in Cuba titled Nuestros Años Verde Olivo (1999) and the novels Los Amantes de Estocolmo ) and Pasiones Griegas. His novels have been published in Latin America and Spain, and have been translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, and English. In Chile his works have sold more than 40 editions. Ampuero now resides in Iowa where he is a professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was a columnist of La Tercera and the New York Times Syndicate and since March 2009 has been working as a columnist for El Mercurio. Between 2013 and 2014 he was Minister of Culture in the government of Sebastián Piñera.
