The first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolano. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. "The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bola...
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 Cesįrea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the ...
A "biographical dictionary" gathering 30 brief accounts of poets, novelists and editors (all fictional) who espouse fascist or extremely right-wing political views.Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wid...
A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean ...
āExtraordinary . . . [BolaƱoās] greatest work.ā -- James Wood, The New York Times The book that catapulted Roberto BolaƱo into international literary stardom, By Night in Chile is the final testimony of SebastiĆ”n Urrutia Lacroix -- Chilean ...
Composed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto BolaƱoās The Return is preoccupied with ghosts: troubled souls hovering in the margins of society, ex-lovers lost to the ages, young men who no longer recognize themselves in the mirror, departed poe...
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 ...
Roberto Bolano takes us into an odd, dark, but comic underworld in this strangely tender noir novel. A Bolano classic. The Peruvian poet CĆ©sar Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness and unable to stop hiccuping. His wife c...
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 ...
Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the authorās death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto BolaƱoās last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Ć"scar Amalfitano -- an exiled Chilean university professor and widower -- through the...
These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat. The stories in The Insufferable Gaucho -- unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire -- ...
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 ...
One more journey to the universe of Roberto BolaƱo, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literatureCowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto BolaƱo's boundless imagination and seemingly i...
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...