The Third Reich

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday.Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace.Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home. Increasingly frightened, the situation slips beyond his grasp and Udo suddenly realizes that the consequences of this 'game' are much more serious than he ever imagined.TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER'Capering, weird, rascally and short... The Third Reich is giddily funny, but it is also prickly and bizarre enough to count among Bolano's first-rate efforts' The Economist'A mesmerizing tale- sleek, linear, easily digested, beautifully translated... Classic Bolano' Washington Post

Bolaño is a master of atmosphere The Wall Street Journal
A perfect novel...Compassionate, disturbing, and deeply felt, it's as much of a gift as anything the late author has given us. NPR
Think Kafka at a beach resort...For those who like their literature to make them look with fear and suspicion at even the most mundane events, The Third Reich is calling. The Cleveland Plain Dealer
A brilliant first novel...all the more remarkable for its prescience. The New Republic
Bolaño's voice demands attention The New Yorker
Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental Times Literary Supplement
Roberto Bolaño’s uncontrollable storytelling pulsion, his savage way of using adjectives, his melancholic, almost tormented urban realism, changed the tone of a whole tradition -- Álvaro Enrigue
When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again -- Nicole Krauss

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.

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