Author: Roberto Bolano

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolanos short stories is that they can do the work of a novel. The Insu...

The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories that seem to tell what Bolano called the secret story, the one well never know. Bent on returnin...

As Bolanos friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolanos fictional uni...

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chiles young poetry scene.But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto rebor...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWERA master of the short form IndependentWide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bolaño's short stories ...

'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime'So begins Biancas tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnigh...

Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.Roberto Bolaño's boundless gift for shaping the chao...

Auxilio Lacouture is trapped.For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins ...

Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife...

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying.A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events...

Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing.A detective sets out to find them. They search among th...

Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City.Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to ...

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 wa...

If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear...A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation ...

War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday.Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet anoth...

Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex.Convicts and academics find themselves here, as do...

When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead.More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or t...

Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martís fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy and revenge.Cushioning her fall fr...

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.A tour de force of black humour a...

This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. ...

New Years Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala.Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea Tin...