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Roberto Bolano
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.
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Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile’s young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider’s dazzling trajectory…
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Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene.
But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile's leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder…
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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.
Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying.
A priest, a member…
Chris Andrews
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved critical and popular acclaim rarely enjoyed by contemporary literature in translation. Chris Andrews…
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Roberto Bola?o
"Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . There is gold to be found in [The Return]." --Michael Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review
Composed of thirteen indelible stories…
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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.
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These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.
A phenomenally unusual three-way murder mystery.
A stunning collection of short stories - mostly dealing with the sex trade - by the late Chilean master and author of The Savage Detectives.
A collection that gathers everything Bolano was working on before his untimely death.
A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bolano: his generation’s premier Latin-American writer (The New York Times).
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.
A biographical dictionary gathering 30 brief accounts of poets, novelists and editors (all fictional) who espouse fascist or extremely right-wing political views.
The first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolano. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.
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.
"Extraordinary . . . [Bola?o's] greatest work." --James Wood, The New York Times
The book that catapulted Roberto Bola?o into international literary stardom, By Night in Chile is the final…
The brightest gleamings from Bolano’s unpublished fiction
Cesar Aira (New Directions)
An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man’s life that…
This volume brings together all the major contributions to the recent decade-long controversy over Karl Marx’s theory that exploitation of workers is the exclusive source of capitalists’ profits. The debate…
