The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Roberto Ampuero's The Neruda Case.
Amazing (and yet not ...) that this is the first of longtime US-resident (and University of Iowa teacher) Ampuero's novels to be published in English. Born in Chile in 1953 -- like that other Roberto, Bolaño -- he too left Chile at an early age -- but his stations were rather different: Cuba, the Germanys (first East, then West), eventually the US. And now he's the Ambassador to Mexico !
Amazing (and yet not ...) that this is the first of longtime US-resident (and University of Iowa teacher) Ampuero's novels to be published in English. Born in Chile in 1953 -- like that other Roberto, Bolaño -- he too left Chile at an early age -- but his stations were rather different: Cuba, the Germanys (first East, then West), eventually the US. And now he's the Ambassador to Mexico !