The Return

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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. 'In this neighbourhood, only the dead go out for a walk'... A young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor, only to watch his soul departing his body. Two embittered police detectives debate their favourite weapons. A violent man looks back on his childhood and seeks out the now-aged male porn actor his mother shot movies with. Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolano. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive- The Return is a trove of strangely arresting short master works. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS 'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching... There is gold to be found in this collection' New York Review of Books 'Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts' Observer 'A compelling encapsulation of Bolano's work... You won't be bored' Los Angeles Times

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'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . there is gold to be found in this collection' * New York Review of Books *
Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts. * Observer *
The sense of embattlement that animates the writing, and the scab-picking intensity that he brings to his obsessions, makes The Return a compelling encapsulation of Bolao's work . . . you won't be bored. * Los Angeles Times *

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.