Summary
A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’s work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.
Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border - an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, ‘missing’ author. But, there is a darker side to the town. Girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate.
As a sense…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879396 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784879398 |
| Author: | Roberto Bolaño |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 912 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 596g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 133mm x 59mm |
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A masterpiece * Time *Bolaño’s most audacious performance … It is bold in a way that few works really are * Financial Times *Bolaño’s masterwork … An often shockingly raunchy and violent tour de force * The New York Review of Books *Readers who have snacked on Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolaño. * Sunday Times *Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.Roberto Bolaño: that poete maudit, irreverent and brilliantRoberto Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time.For stunning wit, brutal honesty, loving humanity and a heart that bleeds into the simplest of words, no other writer ever came close.
About The Author
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.
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