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Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of c
'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime' So begins Biancas tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts into the bad company of two criminals her broth
Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of Mexican poetry. A highly charged first-person semi-hall
Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing. A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world but every door opens on
Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless gift for shaping the chaos of reality into fiction is unmistakable across these three novellas. In Cowboy Graves, Arturo Belano
Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chiles young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chiles leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high abo
Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud, the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. P
Mass-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 humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan
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 direc
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,
This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature... A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial lit
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
Brought to you by Penguin. Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex.Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a rec
New Years Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkable journe
"The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called 'boom' . . . I'm tempted to call Bola?o the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges--he's that visceral and erudite--but this wouldn't do justice t
"It's hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bola?o . . . [ Antwerp is] exceptional and moving." --Nicole Krauss, The Guardian Oft called the "big bang" of Roberto Bola?o's univer
A vast literary reckoning with disappearance, obsession and the violence threaded through modern history. Set in Santa Teresa on the Mexico US border, this literary crime novel about missing women unfolds across intersecting lives: European academics in p
"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 testimony of Sebasti?n Urrutia Lacroix--Chilean pri
"Reading Roberto Bola?o is like . . . watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world." --Francine Prose, The New York Times "We savor
"El mayor regalo de Bola o es hacernos sentir la magnitud de la oscuridad sin que consigamos ver exactamente qu esconde". --Will Blythe, The New York Times Book Review En la primavera de 1938, monsieur Pierre Pain, acupuntor y seguidor convencid
"[One] of his best." --Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker "A masterpiece." -- Los Angeles Times The year is 1971, or perhaps 1972, in Salvador Allende's Chile. Arturo B. is just one of a motley crew of young bohemians attending Juan S
"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, Roberto Bola?o's The Return is preoccupied with ghosts: tro
"Genius . . . [This] is Bola?o playing with sharp, twisting knives." --Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review "Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining." --Michael Dirda, The Washing
As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolaños short stories is that they can do the work of a novel. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories bent on returning to haunt you. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and dar
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: TOP TEN THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ) Co
Roberto Bolaño er Latinamerikas største og mest berømte forfatter siden Gabriel García Márquez. Han er blevet udnævnt til et geni og har fans fra Valeria Luiselli og Paul Auster til Karl Ove Knausgård. Nazilitteratur i Amerika (1996) er et fiktivt leksiko
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER A master of the short form Independent Wide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bolaño's short stories map out the dark terrain that he would go on to explore in his novellas and epic novels. From melancho
Roberto Bolaño er Latinamerikas største og mest berømte forfatter siden Gabriel García Márquez. Han er blevet udnævnt til et geni og har fans fra Valeria Luiselli og Paul Auster til Karl Ove Knausgård. De vilde detektiver er hans gennembrudsroman og et ho