Description: "A novel following the crimes and disappearance of a murderous air force pilot in Pinochet's Chile"-- 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.
Review Quotes:
"[Distant Star portrays], with disarming humor, the inevitable and sometimes gruesome collision (and collusion) of literature, history, and politics . . . [It] marries humor and irony, violence and love, poetry and death."
--Aura Estrada, Bookforum
--Lily Meyer, NPR "A story about fascism and art [grafted] onto the structure of a detective novel."
--Siddhartha Deb, Harper's Magazine "[One] of his finest."
--William Deresiewicz, The New Republic