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Roberto Bolano
A stunning collection of short stories - mostly dealing with the sex trade - by the late Chilean master and author of The Savage Detectives.
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The posthumous success of novelist, poet and essayist Roberto Bolano is one of the most stunning triumphs in the history of Latin American literature. Shortly before his death, he was…
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Poetry is braver than anyone, Roberto Bolan o believed, and the proof is here in Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection.
The essays of Roberto Bolano in English at last.
Udo Berger, a failed writer, travels to a small resort on Spain’s Costa Brava, where he befriends another German couple. But when one of his friends disappears after a night…
Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolano. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: a trove of strangely arresting, short master works.
A trove of strange, arresting, short masterworks - five stories and two essays - by Roberto Bolano, a writer who pulls bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.
A collection of fictional biographies of right-wing writers, Roberto Bolano’s Nazi Literature in the Americas presents an alternative world of 20th century literature.
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Antwerp’s signature elements-crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits-mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolano. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.
He is by far the most exciting writer to come from South of the Rio Grande in a long time. -Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times
Occult sciences, Cesar Vallejo, WWII, hopeless love, and a final Epilogue for Voices : Monsieur Pain is a hallucinatory masterwork by the great Roberto Bolano.
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some…
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This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolano’s writing. Bolano’s narrators are grappling with…
With 2666, Bolano joins the ambitious overachievers of the 20th-century novel … who push the novel far past its conventional size and scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic…
A biographical dictionary gathering 30 brief accounts of poets, novelists and editors (all fictional) who espouse fascist or extremely right-wing political views.
A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia.
The first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolano. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.
A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman’s voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.
Roberto Bolano,Chris Andrews
A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.