Distant Star
$23.30
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
21 January 2025
Summary
A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’s work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.
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, Wieder’s dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879457 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784879452 |
| Author: | Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 21 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 129g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño (Author)
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.
Chris Andrews (Translator)
Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He teaches in the department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies of the University of Melbourne. His translation of Roberto Bolaño’s Distant Star in 2005 won the prestigious Valle-Inclán Prize.
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