Distant Star

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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 above the cities, Weiders 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 narrators 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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Roberto Bolano 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.