"No volveré. No me llames, ni me busques" es el inesperado mensaje que Bruno Garza encuentra una mañana en la pantalla de su correo electrónico. Fabiana, su mujer, ha decidido abandonarlo. Hasta ese día, llevaba una existencia más bien tranquila en una ciudad de la pradera del Midwest norteamericano. Contaba con una cátedra sobre el pensamiento utópico y carecía de grandes emociones, salvo la de engañar a su esposa. 
Pero Bruno no está dispuesto a perder a Fabiana. Decide realizar una búsqueda desesperada, en la que no sólo irá tras su mujer, sino tras la razón que explique su vida, la rutina en que cayó su matrimonio, los quiebres del amor y la pasión perdida. 
Fabiana, en cambio, huye de su marido y de sí misma, de la sombra de su pasado y de su origen en una Centroamérica exótica y violenta, llevando dolorosos secretos familiares a cuestas. 
Una bella y remota isla griega es el sitio que ambos se han trazado, sin acuerdo previo, como probable lugar de reencuentro. Allí confluyen sus mejores evocaciones de lo que fue su amor, su pasión y su felicidad. Surge así el paraíso al cual tal vez algún día Bruno y Fabiana deberán llegar, o regresar.

Pasiones Griegas

Literature & Fiction

AMPUERO, ROBERTO

Contemporary

Rayo

Pub Date: 2014-03-25 Pages: 362 Language: Spanish Publisher: Vintage Espanol Ninguno de los comandantes en jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas chilenas responde en su domicilio la manana del 11 de septiembre de 1973. Todo indica que el golpe de Estado esta en marcha. Salvador Allende se dirige al Palacio de La Moneda. Y Rufi no. asistente personal del presidente. viejo companero en un taller anarquista y gran amante del tango. afi cion que comparte con el mandatario. escribe en un cuaderno escolar la historia de la tragedia que se avecina. Muchos anos despues. ya derrumbados los muros de la Guerra Fria. el mismo cuaderno ve la luz cuando inesperadamente llega a las manos de David Kurtz. ex agente de la CIA. quien a traves de sus paginas ira descubriendo no solo la vida intima del presidente. sino tambien secretos inimaginables de su propio pasado. Con talento y maestria. Roberto Amp...

El ultimo tango de Salvador Allende / The Ultimate Tango of Salvador Allende (Spanish Edition)

United States

Vintage Espanol

Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brulé are an international sensation. In The Neruda Case, listeners are introduced to Cayetano as he takes on his first case as a private eye. Set against the fraught political world of pre-Pinochet Chile, Castro's Cuba, and perilous behind-the-Wall East Berlin, this mystery spans countries, cultures, and political ideas, and features one of literature's most beloved figures—Pablo Neruda.Cayetano meets the poet at a party in Chile in the 1970s. The dying Neruda recruits Cayetano to help him solve the last great mystery of his life. As Cayetano fumbles around his first case, finding it hard to embrace the new inspector identity foisted upon him, he begins to learn more about Neruda's hidden agenda. Neruda sends him on a whirlwind expedition around the world, ending back in Chile, where Pinochet's coup plays out against the final revelations of their journey.Evocative, romantic, and full of intrigue, Ampuero's novel is both a glimpse into the life of Pablo Neruda as death approaches and a political thriller that unfolds during the fiercely convulsive end of an era.

The Neruda Case: A Novel

Literary

Tantor Audio

Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary.Roberto Ampuero’s novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brulé are an international sensation. In The Neruda Case, readers are introduced to Cayetano as he takes on his first case as a private eye. Set against the fraught political world of pre-Pinochet Chile, Castro’s Cuba, and perilous behind-the-Wall East Berlin, this mystery spans countries, cultures, and political ideas, and features one of literature’s most beloved figuresPablo Neruda.Cayetano meets the poet at a party in Chile in the 1970s. The dying Neruda recruits Cayetano to help him solve the last great mystery of his life. As Cayetano fumbles around his first case, finding it hard to embrace the new inspector identity foisted upon him, he begins to learn more about Neruda&amp;rs

The Neruda Case

Riverhead Books

Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary.Roberto Ampuero’s novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brulé are an international sensation. In The Neruda Case, readers are introduced to Cayetano as he takes on his first case as a private eye. Set against the fraught political world of pre-Pinochet Chile, Castro’s Cuba, and perilous behind-the-Wall East Berlin, this mystery spans countries, cultures, and political ideas, and features one of literature’s most beloved figures—Pablo Neruda.
Cayetano meets the poet at a party in Chile in the 1970s. The dying Neruda recruits Cayetano to help him solve the last great mystery of his life. As Cayetano fumbles around his first case, finding it hard to embrace the new inspector identity foisted upon him, he begins to learn more about Neruda’s hidden agenda. Neruda sends him on a whirlwind expedition around the world, ending back in Chile, where Pinochet’s coup plays out against the final revelations of their journey.
Evocative, romantic, and full of intrigue, Ampuero’s novel is both a glimpse into the life of Pablo Neruda as death approaches and a political thriller that unfolds during the fiercely convulsive end of an era.

Der letzte Tango des Salvador Allende

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Berliner Taschenbuch-Verl.

El protagonista de esta novela autobiográfica abandona el Chile de laJunta Militar en 1974 para buscar refugio en Alemania Oriental. Allí seenamora de Margarita, la hija del comandante Cienfuegos, el poderosoembajador de Fidel Castro en Moscú. El matrimonio se celebra pocos mesesdespués en la «isla de la Libertad», sin que el joven veinteañero deentonces intuyera que todas las ilusiones se derrumbarían una tras otraen la medida en que la Revolución cubana mostrara su otra cara. Nuestrosaños verde olivo es uno de los testimonios más contundentes sobre eldesencanto político de una revolución que marcó el siglo XX. Y es a lavez la comprobación de que solo la literatura es capaz de narrar loinenarrable." ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A young Chilean leaves his country in 1974 for East Germany, fleeing from the Pinochet dictatorship and seeking refuge in communism. There, he falls in love with the daughter of Commander Ulises Cienfuegos, who gives his consent for the marriage on the condition that the couple live in Cuba, where the ideals of the Revolution had been the will of the people. From the peace and liberty of the island, the young man had hoped to wait for his native country to recover its democratic tranquility. But Cuban socialism and the Chilean dictatorship begin to acquire distressing similarities. An orphan of political ideals, at the same time that he discovers that in Chile, nothing will ever be the same as it used to be, several of his political allies and family members become the very enemies he is trapped with.

Nuestros años verde olivo / Our Olive Green Years (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Debolsillo]

El Muro de Berlín se alza amenazante antes sus ojos. Lo precede la franja de la muerte, con un campo minado, perros, torres de vigilancia y alambradas que impiden a cualquier germano-oriental cruzar a Occidente. Es el socialismo real, un mundo en las antípodas de los sueños de un joven veinteañero e idealista. En este relato en primero persona la esperada continuación de Nuestros años verde olivo, Roberto Ampuero narra los años en que vivió en la República Democrática Alemana, adonde llegó huyendo de la dictadura chilena cuando era un militante de las JJCC de Chile. Allí se encontró con la solidaridad del gobierno comunista que le permitió vivir y estudiar y amar, pero asimismo, con un sistema represivo, atrasado en décadas económica y culturalmente, y que solo podía mantenerse en pie gracias al estado policial y a las tropas soviéticas allí estacionadas. Detrás del Muro es la historia de un joven que se desencantó de un sistema aplastante y jerárquico, en el que el individuo no valía demasiado. Y es una reflexión sobre la necesidad de defender la libertad y la dignidad del ser humano frente a las ideologías totalitarias. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "The Berlin Wall rises menacingly before his eyes. Leading up to it is the 'death strip,' with landmines, dogs, watchtowers, and tripwires that stop any East German from crossing to the West." This is real socialism, a world that is the antithesis of an idealistic young man's dreams. In this tale—the long-awaited continuation of Our Olive Green Years—Roberto Ampuero narrates the years in which he lived in East Germany, where he had arrived after fleeing the Chilean dictatorship. There, he found himself with the solidarity of the communist government, allowing him to live, study, and love, but even so, with a system that was repressive, economically and culturally behind the times, and which could only stay standing thanks to the police state manned by Soviet troops. Behind the Wall is the story of a young man disenchanted by a crushing, hierarchical system, and it is a reflection on the need to defend liberty and human dignity in the face of totalitarian ideologies.

Detrás del muro (Spanish Edition)

Plaza y Janés.

El respeto irrestricto a la libertad e integridad del ser humano así como la reivindicación de la tolerancia permean estas páginas en las que Roberto Ampuero y Mauricio Rojas conversan en torno a su evolución política desde el marxismo de los años sesenta a las ideas liberales que hoy profesan. Tanto Roberto Ampuero como Mauricio Rojas soñaron con la revolución comunista en los tiempos de Salvador Allende y la Unidad Popular. Ambos salieron al exilio tras el golpe de Estado de 1973, donde se decepcionaron de la materialización de la utopía por la que luchaban. Le vieron de cerca el rostro al socialismo, ya sea totalitario o socialdemócrata, y no les gustó. Pero su largo viaje por tierras lejanas no solo cambió sus ideales políticos sino también a ellos como personas y les permitió mirar a Chile con nuevos ojos. En Diálogo de conversos recuerdan su pasado y los errores de los radicalismos, e invitan a extraer lecciones de esa historia para re cuperar el profundo sentido de la amistad cívica en que se basa la democracia así como la credibilidad en la política. En este libro los autores analizan también el complejo presente de la sociedad chilena, advierten sobre los riesgos de la polarización política n acional y proponen un futuro más auspicioso para nuestro país." ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A profound respect for freedom and human integrity, as well as the claim for tolerance fill these pages in which Roberto Ampuero and Mauricio Rojas talk about their political evolution from Marxism in the 60s to the liberal ideas that they profess today. Both Ampuero and Rojas dreamt of the communist revolution during Chile's times of Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity alliance. Both went into exile after the Military Coup in 1973 which is where they became disheartened with the utopia for which they had fought. They saw up close the realities of socialism, be it totalitarian or social democracy, and they did not like it. Their faraway travels not only changed their ideals, but also changed them as persons; they were able to see Chile with clearer eyes. In this work they remember their past and the mistakes of radicalism, and invite us to learn from history in order to regain the deep sense of civic duties that democracy is based on. In it, the authors also analyze the complicated present of Chilean Diálogo de conversos A Dialog between Two Converts society today, they warn about the risks of domestic political polarization and propose a more promising future for Chile.

Diálogo de conversos / A Dialog between Two Converts (Spanish Edition)

ROJAS, Mauricio

Essays & Correspondence

Debate

El último tango de Salvador Allende

Genre Fiction

Plaza Janes

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