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2666 by Roberto Bolaño (tr from Spanish Natasha Wimmer)
Category: Fiction
Written in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope. At the centre of the book is the fictional city of Santa Teresa on the Mexico-US border. It is an u ...Show more
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
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 n ...Show more
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
Category: Fiction
During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is dying and in his feverish delirium various characters, both real and imaginary, ...Show more
Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas by Roberto Bolaño
Category: Fiction
One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolano, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bola o's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his real ...Show more
Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Editions Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Spirit of Science Fiction - A Novel by Roberto Bolaño; Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
Category: Fiction
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 life in the literary world--or sacrifice themselves to it ...Show more
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