The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño

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 legacyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER'A master of the short form' IndependentWide-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.'Bolano was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time' Paul Auster'Bolano was a game changer- his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled' Mariana Enriquez

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 -- 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
A master of the short form… essential – and unforgettable Times Literary Supplement

Roberto Bolano 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 R mulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.

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