By Night in Chile

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Roberto Bolaño (Author) Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth. Chris Andrews (Translator) Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He teaches in the department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies of the University of Melbourne. His translation of Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star in 2005 won the prestigious Valle-Inclán Prize.

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ‘wizened youth’ who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later. 
 
Translated by Chris Andrews 
 
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Distant Star

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. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider’s dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. Where did this talent suddenly spring from? And, how is it connected to the disappearance of the beautiful Garmendia twins? 
 
Told from across the years in exile in Europe, the narrator’s attempts to trace the fate of his old circle will lead him to one last confrontation with the brutality of their generation. 
 
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Last Evenings On Earth

The first collection of stories in English by the author considered to be the finest Latin American writer of his generation.

The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world

Bolaño's language, alert and always graceful, his way of constructing narratives that are simultaneously disconcerting, brilliant and infinitely immediate, is a form of resisting evil, adversity and mediocrity

&lsquo;Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.&rsquo;

&lsquo;Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled.&rsquo;

&lsquo;Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental.&rsquo;

Roberto Bolaño mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bolaño is among the best at this diabolical skill

For stunning wit, brutal honesty, loving humanity and a heart that bleeds into the simplest of words, no other writer ever came close

It&rsquo;s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius.

This may be the most haunting and mesmerising collection I have ever read

A book full of insight for writers and aficionados of South American literature and culture

It is a shame that Bolaño has no more evenings on earth, his unique voice asserting the importance and exuberance of literature will be sorely missed

This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolaño's writing. Bolaño's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats. His stories are often witty, frequently melancholy and always original.

Woes of the True Policeman

When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead. 
 
More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced to flee Barcelona with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Amalfitano finds himself in Santa Teresa, a sprawling, mythical town on the Mexico-US border, populated by mysterious characters and haunted by dark tales of murdered women. 
 
Returning to the the world and characters of 2666, Bolaño's masterpiece, Woes of the True Policeman explores the the power of art, memory and desire - and marks a kaleidoscopic, lyrical and darkly humorous last act in one of the great oeuvres of world literature. 
 
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 
 
&lsquo;Hallucinatory, manic, fearful, comic... Bolaño must be read by anyone who loves the novel&rsquo; Herald 
 
&lsquo;We savour all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius&rsquo; Patti Smith

The most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation.

It&rsquo;s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius

Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world

There is a power in these pages that very few writers ever achieve

Roberto Bolaño mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bolaño is among the best at this diabolical skill.

When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.

When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead. 
 
More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced to flee Barcelona with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Amalfitano finds himself in Santa Teresa, a sprawling, mythical town on the Mexico-US border, populated by mysterious characters and haunted by dark tales of murdered women. 
 
Returning to the the world and characters of 2666, Bolaño's masterpiece, Woes of the True Policeman explores the the power of art, memory and desire - and marks a kaleidoscopic, lyrical and darkly humorous last act in one of the great oeuvres of world literature. 
 
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 
 
&lsquo;Hallucinatory, manic, fearful, comic... Bolaño must be read by anyone who loves the novel&rsquo; Herald 
 
&lsquo;We savour all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius&rsquo; Patti Smith

The Third Reich

War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday. 
 
Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace. 
 
Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home. Increasingly frightened, the situation slips beyond his grasp and Udo suddenly realizes that the consequences of this &lsquo;game&rsquo; are much more serious than he ever imagined. 
 
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 
 
&lsquo;Capering, weird, rascally and short... The Third Reich is giddily funny, but it is also prickly and bizarre enough to count among Bolaño&rsquo;s first-rate efforts&rsquo; The Economist 
 
&lsquo;A mesmerizing tale: sleek, linear, easily digested, beautifully translated&hellip; Classic Bolaño&rsquo; Washington Post

A perfect novel...Compassionate, disturbing, and deeply felt, it's as much of a gift as anything the late author has given us.

Think Kafka at a beach resort...For those who like their literature to make them look with fear and suspicion at even the most mundane events, The Third Reich is calling.

A brilliant first novel...all the more remarkable for its prescience.

Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental

Roberto Bolaño&rsquo;s uncontrollable storytelling pulsion, his savage way of using adjectives, his melancholic, almost tormented urban realism, changed the tone of a whole tradition

War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday. 
 
Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace. 
 
Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home. Increasingly frightened, the situation slips beyond his grasp and Udo suddenly realizes that the consequences of this &lsquo;game&rsquo; are much more serious than he ever imagined. 
 
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 
 
&lsquo;Capering, weird, rascally and short... The Third Reich is giddily funny, but it is also prickly and bizarre enough to count among Bolaño&rsquo;s first-rate efforts&rsquo; The Economist 
 
&lsquo;A mesmerizing tale: sleek, linear, easily digested, beautifully translated&hellip; Classic Bolaño&rsquo; Washington Post

The Spirit of Science Fiction

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 life in the literary world. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. 
 
Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction. Meanwhile, Remo runs head-first into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city&rsquo;s labyrinthine streets, rundown cafes, and murky bathhouses. 
 
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 
 
&lsquo;Fascinating... Achingly beautiful... It reads like a dispatch from beyond the grave&rsquo; New Yorker 
 
&lsquo;The Spirit of Science Fiction functions as a kind of key to the jewelled box of Bolaño&rsquo;s fictions... A cocktail of sorrow and ecstasy&rsquo; Paris Review

The novel is dappled with recognizably Bolañan pleasures

[A]n entertaining, lyrical and accomplished novel.

Roberto Bolaño&rsquo;s books are volcanic, perilous, charged with infectious erotic energy and demonic lucidity

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 life in the literary world. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. 
 
Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction. Meanwhile, Remo runs head-first into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city&rsquo;s labyrinthine streets, rundown cafes, and murky bathhouses. 
 
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 
 
&lsquo;Fascinating... Achingly beautiful... It reads like a dispatch from beyond the grave&rsquo; New Yorker 
 
&lsquo;The Spirit of Science Fiction functions as a kind of key to the jewelled box of Bolaño&rsquo;s fictions... A cocktail of sorrow and ecstasy&rsquo; Paris Review

Roberto Bolaño

On New Year&rsquo;s Eve, 1975, two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. 
 
Their quest: to track down the vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey through our darkening universe. Told, shared and mythologised by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, their testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of all time. 
 
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 
 
&lsquo;Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia. He could be funny, he could be literate, he could be devastating. And his writing was always unparalleled&rsquo; Mariana Enríquez 
 
&lsquo;Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world&rsquo; Guardian

Roberto Bolaño

The Savage Detectives

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