New Fiction: Roberto Ampuero on The Neruda Case, Hari Kunzru on Gods Without Men and Jess Walter on Beautiful Ruins: A Novel
Sunday, Nov. 18, 11:00 a.m., Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Roberto Ampuero
Roberto Ampuero is a global literary star and one of Chile’s most celebrated authors. However, his 11 books have never been translated into English—until now. In his political thriller The Neruda Case: A Novel (Riverhead, $26.95) a roguish private eye recounts the strange sequence of events that led him to take his first case as a private eye in the winter of 1973, just as the cracks in Chilean President Salvatore Allende’s Socialist regime are growing impossible to ignore. After a chance encounter at a party, Cayetano is recruited by the ailing poet and activist Pablo Neruda to help him solve the last great mystery of his life. Born in Chile, Ampuero is a professor of creative writing at the University of Iowa and currently serves as Chile’s ambassador to Mexico.
Es uno de los escritores chilenos más populares y exitosos de los últimos años. Autor de una brillante saga literaria que renovó la novela negra latinoamericana con el personaje del detective Cayetano Brulé, protagonista de la exitosa serie integrada por las novelas ¿Quién mató a Cristián Kusterman?; Boleros en La Habana; El alemán de Atacama; Cita en el azul profundo; Halcones de la noche y El caso Neruda. A esta serie se suman la exitosa novela Nuestros años verde olivo, la celebrada Los amantes de Estocolmo, entre otras. Egresado del prestigioso Taller Internacional de Escritores (IWP) de la Universidad de Iowa, enseña allí mismo literatura y escritura creativa. Este año presenta en la Feria El último tango de Salvador Allende (Random House Mondadori), una novela que parte de hechos históricos y se sumerge con delicadeza en la imaginación literaria, durante una etapa crucial de la historia de Chile y América Latina.
Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru’s novel, Gods Without Men (Knopf, $26.95) is an exploration of magic and mystery. When a couple’s autistic son vanishes during a faily vacation in the Mojave Desert, the fate of the young family intersects with that of many other before them who have made a similar pilgrimage. “. . . this thrill-ride of a novel is about searching for truth . . .”—O, The Oprah Magazine. Kunzru, named one of its twenty best young British novelists by Granta magazine, is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, and My Revolutions.
Jess Walter
The comedic rollercoaster of a novel, Beautiful Ruins (Harper, $25.95), begins in Italy, 1962. A young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: She is an American starlet, and she is dying. The story begins again today, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a Hollywood movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier. “. . . an interlocking, continent-hopping, decade-spanning novel with heart and pathos to burn, all big dreams, lost loves, deep longings and damn near perfect.”—Salon. Jess Walter is the author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets, the National Book Award finalist The Zero, the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince, Land of the Blind, and the New York Times Notable Book Over Tumbled Graves.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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