{"product_id":"neruda-case-book-roberto-ampuero-9780285643123","title":"The Neruda Case","description":"In 1970's Chile Pablo Neruda,   the Nobel-prize winning poet, is close to death, and he senses the end of an   era in Chilean politics but there is one final secret he must resolve. He   recruits Cayetano Brulé, a young Cuban rogue, as his \"own private Maigret\"   and lends Brulé the novels of Simenon as a crash course in the role of   private detective. Brulé must travel across the world, through Neruda's past   and the political faiths he has espoused, retracing the poet's life from   Fidel Castro's Cuba to Berlin, Mexico City to Bolivia. Brulé desperately   tries to fulfil Neruda's final request amid the brutal beginning of   Pinochet's dictatorship while all the poet once believed in is swept away.   Evocative and romantic, The Neruda Case spans lies and truth, travelling   between uneasy peace and political coup, from life to death. Brulé, a   daydreamer and reluctant detective, is lost among Latin America's   uncertainties, venality and corruption while his first case introduces one of   the great characters of international crime fiction. Among the pleasures of   The Neruda Case is its provocative fictional portrait of Pablo Neruda, as the   poet re-evaluates his life and begins to question abandoning those he loved   for his poetry. This is the first English language translation of Roberto   Ampuero's atmospheric Brulé detective novels and brings South American noir   to a new audience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49513095266577,"sku":"GOR006988786","price":10.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53146681934097,"sku":"GOR007701113","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0285643126.jpg?v=1772275905","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/neruda-case-book-roberto-ampuero-9780285643123","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}