Roberto Bolaño

Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman—these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women have …

Antwerp’s signature elements―crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits―mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolano. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition. As Bolano’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can …

Amulett är den chilenske författaren Roberto Bolaños sjätte roman. Den gavs ursprungligen ut på spanska 1999 med originaltiteln Amuleto, och publicerades på svenska 2011 i översättning av Lena E. Heyman 2011. Romanen följer genom en kvinnas röst Latinamerikas melankoli och våldsamma historia. Kvinnan gömmer sig undan …

National BestsellerIn this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The …

Distant Star is a novella by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, first published in Spanish in 1996. Chris Andrews’s English translation was published by New Directions in 2004. The story is based on the chapter "The Infamous Ramírez Hoffman" from Bolaño's book Nazi Literature in the Americas, where the protagonist's name …

The Insufferable Gaucho is a collection of five short stories and two essays by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. It was published in English in 2010, translated by Chris Andrews. During his lifetime, Bolaño made his name as a writer of short stories, and The Insufferable Gaucho collects a disparate variety of work. …