Description: "A collection of posthumously published stories by Roberto Bolano"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
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Praise for Roberto Bolaño
"Bolaño was possessed of a genius that was totalizing and inscrutable . . . [He] delighted in annihilating narrative expectations and took dreams and nightmares as seriously as waking reality."--Adam Mansbach, Los Angeles Times "To encounter Bolaño at a particular time in one's life is to be psychically branded . . . He is a kinetic, epiphanic writer . . . [His] works tremble like a whirring, unpredictable machine."
--Dustin Illingworth, The Paris Review "A master of the short form . . . Taking the plunge may be terrifying, but it is also essential--and unforgettable."
--Josh Weeks, The Times Literary Supplement