The Third Reich

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 EnrigueWhen 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.