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A review by judidec
The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero, Caro De Robertis
4.0
"Poets. Now Cayetano understood why people didn’t trust them"
A quite dense mystery novel about a budding detective sent on a wild goose chase in 1970s Chile. I enjoyed the travelogue aspect of the novel, as the character jumps around Latin America and various communist strongholds of the era. It also spurred me to learn more about the events surrounding the Allende government. However, I felt the story itself was sacrificed a bit in all of this, and it wasn't as tight as I would have liked.
A quite dense mystery novel about a budding detective sent on a wild goose chase in 1970s Chile. I enjoyed the travelogue aspect of the novel, as the character jumps around Latin America and various communist strongholds of the era. It also spurred me to learn more about the events surrounding the Allende government. However, I felt the story itself was sacrificed a bit in all of this, and it wasn't as tight as I would have liked.