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Biographical note
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.Bolaño is a master of atmosphere
The Wall Street Journal
A perfect novel...Compassionate, disturbing, and deeply felt, it's as much of a gift as anything the late author has given us.
NPR
Think Kafka at a beach resort...For those who like their literature to make them look with fear and suspicion at even the most mundane events, <i>The Third Reich</i> is calling.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
A brilliant first novel...all the more remarkable for its prescience.
The New Republic
Bolaño's voice demands attention
The New Yorker
Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental
Times Literary Supplement
Roberto Bolaño’s uncontrollable storytelling pulsion, his savage way of using adjectives, his melancholic, almost tormented urban realism, changed the tone of a whole tradition
- Álvaro Enrigue,
When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again
- Nicole Krauss,
War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday.
Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace.
Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home. Increasingly frightened, the situation slips beyond his grasp and Udo suddenly realizes that the consequences of this ‘game’ are much more serious than he ever imagined.
TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER
‘Capering, weird, rascally and short... The Third Reich is giddily funny, but it is also prickly and bizarre enough to count among Bolaño’s first-rate efforts’ The Economist
‘A mesmerizing tale: sleek, linear, easily digested, beautifully translated… Classic Bolaño’ Washington Post