Roberto Bolano

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction

The first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. "The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolaño once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bo...

• Apr-2007
• / General Fiction

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Ces�rea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the ...

• Feb-2008
• / General Fiction

“Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.” -- The Washington PostMass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.A tour de force of black ...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction

“Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.” -- Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds“[Latin America’s] most vibrant expositor: an acid-tongued, truth-telling, peripatetic gen...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bola�o's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction

“[One of] his masterpieces.” -- Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book ReviewAlberto Ruiz-Tagle was once a quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile’s young poetry scene.But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as the new regim...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction

“Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” -- James Wood, The New York Times The book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night in Chile is the final testimony of Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix -- Chilean ...

• Aug-2010
• / Literary

“Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . There is gold to be found in [The Return].” -- Michael Greenberg, The New York Times Book ReviewComposed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto Bolaño’s The Return is preoccupied with ghosts: troubl...

• Nov-2011
• / Literary

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent his summers as a child. There, they meet another vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker ...

• Feb-2012
• / Literary

“The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges -- he’s that visceral and erudite -- but this wouldn’t do justice to h...

• May-2012
• / Literary

A collection that gathers everything Bolano was working on before his untimely death.A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a ...

• Nov-2012
• / Literary

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author’s death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño’s last, unfinished novel. The novel follows �"scar Amalfitano -- an exiled Chilean university professor and widower -- through the...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction

“Excellent . . . ‘The Insufferable Gaucho’ is one of Bolaño’s most powerful fictions.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewAn aging Buenos Aires judge retires to the family ranch in the Pampas to battle feral rabbits and reclaim the dignity ...

• Feb-2019
• / Literary

From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a ...

• Feb-2021
• / Literary

One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literatureCowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly i...

• Feb-2022
• / Literary

One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literatureCowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and...

• Dec-2025
• / Literary

“One of the more colorful gods in the pantheon of international literary myth . . . [Bolaño] follows his restless talent down every available rabbit hole.” -- Sam Anderson, New York“When I read Roberto Bolaño, I think: Everything is possib...