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A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Fiction
"Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime": so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome. Orphaned overnight as a teenager-"our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us"-she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, and drifts into ...Show more
AMULET by BOLANO ROBERTO
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Category: Fiction
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, a ...Show more
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 16
Antwerp was Roberto Bolano's first novel, though he chose not to publish it until 2002, more than twenty years after he'd written it. Set amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites on the Costa Brava and filled with hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen, Antwerp is a short and cinematic ...Show more
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Fiction
Antwerp is Bolano intensified and distilled. As his friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, it can be viewed as the Big Bang of his fictional universe. It is the birth of Bolano's enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent e ...Show more
BY NIGHT IN CHILE by BOLANO ROBERTO
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Category: Fiction
As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel-Roberto Bolano's first work available in English-recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a p ...Show more
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: 16
Roberto Bolano is most widely known for his groundbreaking novels and irreverent poetry, but as he became increasingly famous he found himself in great demand as a writer of non-fiction. Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolano wrote during the last five years of hi ...Show more
DISTANT STAR by BOLANO ROBERTO
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Category: Fiction
The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who firs ...Show more
Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Fiction
An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dictator ...Show more
LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH by BOLANO ROBERTO
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Category: Fiction
"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These ...Show more
Last Evenings On Earth by Bolano, Roberto
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Category: Fiction
Ernest Hemingway once said that a good story was like an iceberg; what is visible is always smaller than the part that remains hidden beneath the water, which confers intensity, mystery, power and meaning on what floats on the surface. This is certainly true of the fourteen stories here, the first colle ...Show more
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Fiction
Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano' Sunday Times Cesar Vallejo, renowned Peruvian poet, lies dying in hospital he's hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife pins her hopes on the mesmerist and reclusive b ...Show more
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
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Category: Fiction
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, "Nazi Literature in the Americas" details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinarily fecund imaginations i ...Show more