The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolao

(Hardback)

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A beautifully packaged gift edition collecting Roberto Bolano's short stories together for the first time - a major reappraisal of the vital place that the short story commands within Bolano's literary legacy WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER 'A master of the short form' Independent Wide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bolano's short stories map out the dark terrain that he would go on to explore in his novellas and epic novels. From melancholic portraits of exile and its folklore to a rogue's gallery of desperate characters futilely attempting to unearth the animating secrets of the world, each of Bolano's short fictions adds yet another door, a window, a secret passage onto the sinister, eerie universe that Bolano brought to life across his body of work. Bringing together Last Evenings on Earth, The Return and The Insufferable Gaucho, as well as Bolano's posthumously published stories, this new book marks the first time these fictions have been collected in one edition, allowing for a major reappraisal of the vital place that the short story commands for Bolano's literary legacy. 'Roberto Bolano was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time' Paul Auster 'Roberto Bolano was a game changer- his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled' Mariana Enriquez

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Readers who have snacked on Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolao * Sunday Times *
Roberto Bolao's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century -- Lauren Groff
One of the greatest and most distinctive voices in modern fiction * The Times *
A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores * The New Yorker *

Author Bio

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.