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The collected short stories of Roberto Bolaño

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Wide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bolaño’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 Bolaño’s short fictions adds yet another door, a window, a secret passage onto the sinister, eerie universe that Bolaño brought to life across his body of work.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER

‘A master of the short form’ Independent

Wide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bolaño’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 Bolaño’s short fictions adds yet another door, a window, a secret passage onto the sinister, eerie universe that Bolaño brought to life across his body of work.

Bringing together Last Evenings on Earth, The Return and The Insufferable Gaucho, as well as Bolaño’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 Bolaño’s literary legacy.

‘Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time’ Paul Auster

‘Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled’ Mariana Enrìquez

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Weight 0.696 kg
Dimensions 22.3 × 14.3 × 3.8 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

832

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

863.64 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K