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  The Savage Detectives

  by Roberto Bolaño

  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 Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by “the most exciting writer to come from... (more)
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  Last Evenings on Earth

  by Roberto Bolaño

  The first story collection by Roberto Bolaño —"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Roberto Bolaño's story collection Last Evenings on Earth was acclaimed by Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolaño is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric of the particular, watching the... (more)
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  Nazi Literature in the Americas

  by Roberto Bolaño

  A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bolaño: "his generation's premier Latin-American writer" ( The New York Times ). A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the... (more)
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  2666

  by Roberto Bolaño

  Se diría que es la figura de Von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán, el hilo secreto que cosería entre sí las cinco «partes» de que se compone 2666, sin duda la obra maestra de Roberto Bolaño. Una fecha en cuya perspectiva tan remota debe ordenarse la impresionante maraña de destinos, de personajes, de líneas argumentales y genéricas, una vastísima constelación marcada por el signo de la pérdida y del... (more)
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  Antwerp

  by Roberto Bolaño

  Antwerp’s signature elements—crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits—mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolaño. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition. As Bolaño’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the... (more)
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  Amulet

  by Roberto Bolaño

  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. It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a... (more)
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  Distant Star

  by Roberto Bolaño

  A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolaño'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 Poetry, a multi-media enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star"... (more)
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  The Third Reich

  by Roberto Bolaño

  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 the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and... (more)