'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . there is gold to be found in this collection'

New York Review of Books

Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts.

Observer

The sense of embattlement that animates the writing, and the scab-picking intensity that he brings to his obsessions, makes <i>The Return</i> a compelling encapsulation of Bolaño's work . . . you won't be bored.

Los Angeles Times

‘In this neighbourhood, only the dead go out for a walk’...A young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor, only to watch his soul departing his body. Two embittered police detectives debate their favourite weapons. A violent man looks back on his childhood and seeks out the now-aged male porn actor his mother shot movies with.Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolaño. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: The Return is a trove of strangely arresting short master works.TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching... There is gold to be found in this collection' New York Review of Books‘Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts’ Observer ‘A compelling encapsulation of Bolaño's work... You won't be bored’ Los Angeles Times
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'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . there is gold to be found in this collection'

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784879518
Publisert
2024-09-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
153 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter

Biographical note

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.