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A Little Lumpen Novelita

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“An exemplary literary rebel.” —Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books“[Bolaño] demonstrates . . . what is possible in fiction—which is to say, anything.” —William Deresiewicz, The New RepublicNow I’m a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime. So begins the story of Bianca, whom a car crash has overnight left an orphan and, only a teenager herself, a caregiver to her ... Read more

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“An exemplary literary rebel.” —Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books“[Bolaño] demonstrates . . . what is possible in fiction—which is to say, anything.” —William Deresiewicz, The New RepublicNow I’m a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime. So begins the story of Bianca, whom a car crash has overnight left an orphan and, only a teenager herself, a caregiver to her
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2666

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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERTHE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of ... Read more

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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERTHE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of
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The Insufferable Gaucho

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“Reading Roberto Bolaño is like . . . watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.” —Francine Prose, The New York Times“We savor all he has written, as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius.” —Patti SmithAn aging judge retires from Buenos Aires to the family ... Read more

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“Reading Roberto Bolaño is like . . . watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.” —Francine Prose, The New York Times“We savor all he has written, as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius.” —Patti SmithAn aging judge retires from Buenos Aires to the family
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Understanding Roberto Bolano

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An examination of the novels, short story collections, and poetry of the Latin American authorIn Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for The Savage ... Read more

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An examination of the novels, short story collections, and poetry of the Latin American authorIn Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for The Savage
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The Savage Detectives

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The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.National BestsellerNew Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent ... Read more

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The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.National BestsellerNew Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent
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Nazi Literature in the Americas

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“Genius . . . [This] is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.” —Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review“Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostNazi Literature in the Americas is Roberto Bolaño’s vertiginous, Borgesian journey into literature’s most abysmal depths. In this mock encyclopedia of imaginary ... Read more

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“Genius . . . [This] is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.” —Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review“Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostNazi Literature in the Americas is Roberto Bolaño’s vertiginous, Borgesian journey into literature’s most abysmal depths. In this mock encyclopedia of imaginary
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By Night in Chile

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“Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book Review“A marvelous river of feeling, a brilliant meditation, an enthralling fantasy—By Night in Chile is the real thing, and the rarest: a contemporary novel destined to have a permanent place in world literature.” —Susan SontagThe book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night ... Read more

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“Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book Review“A marvelous river of feeling, a brilliant meditation, an enthralling fantasy—By Night in Chile is the real thing, and the rarest: a contemporary novel destined to have a permanent place in world literature.” —Susan SontagThe book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night
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Distant Star

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“[One] of his best.” —Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker“A masterpiece.” —Los Angeles TimesThe year is 1971, or perhaps 1972, in Salvador Allende’s Chile. Arturo B. is just one of a motley crew of young bohemians attending Juan Stein’s poetry workshop at the University of Concepción when a mysterious newcomer by the name of Alberto Ruiz-Tagle arrives. Though Alberto’s taciturn manner, patrician airs, ... Read more

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“[One] of his best.” —Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker“A masterpiece.” —Los Angeles TimesThe year is 1971, or perhaps 1972, in Salvador Allende’s Chile. Arturo B. is just one of a motley crew of young bohemians attending Juan Stein’s poetry workshop at the University of Concepción when a mysterious newcomer by the name of Alberto Ruiz-Tagle arrives. Though Alberto’s taciturn manner, patrician airs,
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Antwerp

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“Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review“A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New YorkerOften called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s universe, Antwerp is his first novel—or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years old, it was so ... Read more

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“Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review“A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New YorkerOften called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s universe, Antwerp is his first novel—or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years old, it was so
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Amulet

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“Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.” —Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds“[Latin America’s] most vibrant expositor: an acid-tongued, truth-telling, peripatetic genius, who lived all too briefly, wrote in a fever and did not go gentle into that good night.” —Marie Arana, The Washington PostAuxilio Lacouture is the mother of ... Read more

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“Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.” —Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds“[Latin America’s] most vibrant expositor: an acid-tongued, truth-telling, peripatetic genius, who lived all too briefly, wrote in a fever and did not go gentle into that good night.” —Marie Arana, The Washington PostAuxilio Lacouture is the mother of
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Monsieur Pain

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“The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh AirIn 1938 Paris, Monsieur Pierre Pain, a beleaguered mesmerist and a lonely bachelor, receives a telegram from his friend and ... Read more

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“The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh AirIn 1938 Paris, Monsieur Pierre Pain, a beleaguered mesmerist and a lonely bachelor, receives a telegram from his friend and
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Woes of the True Policeman

by Roberto Bolaño ...

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, The Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter—as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. ... Read more

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Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, The Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter—as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico.
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