Nazi Literature in the Americas

“Blistering, dark comedy … Expansive and haunting.” –Todd Shy, San Francisco Chronicle

“Compact, fresh, and potent … A funny and disturbing catalog of imaginary writers.” –Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books

“A darkly comic celebration of the wilder horizons of writing, good, plodding, lunatic and terrible.” –Michael Wood, London Review of Books

”[It] reflects Bolaño’s dual nature as a book-besotted romantic committed to the transcendent power of literature, and a postmodern trickster who knows how cruelly art can mislead or be misused … Moving.”–Michael Saler, The Times Literary Supplement

“The best and weirdest kind of literary game … This artful alternate history … is a strangely profound place to get lost.” –Tim Martin, Financial Times

Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666, among many other notable works. Born in Santiago, Chile, he later lived in Mexico City, Paris, and Barcelona. His accolades include the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He died at the age of fifty and is widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation.

Chris Andrews has translated books of prose fiction by César Aira, Roberto Bolaño, Liliana Colanzi, and Ágota Kristóf, among others. He is also the author of How to Do Things with Forms and The Oblong Plot.