Roberto Bolaño
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An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
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On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals-the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado-and to the darker side of life in a resort town.
Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown...
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Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel.
The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano-an exiled Chilean university professor and widower-through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a former student, and his retreat from scandal in Barcelona.
Forced to leave Barcelona for Santa Teresa, a Mexican...
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A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Comprising short biographies about imaginary writers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Columbia, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the United States, Nazi Literature in the Americas includes descriptions of the writers'...
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Es una historia vibrante sobre una serie de acontecimientos que un sacerdote del Opus Dei e importante critico literario chileno vivio durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix nos narra sus recuerdos padeciendo una fiebre muy alta y nos hace participes de algunos sucesos historicos en los que el participo en su natal Chile y sin entender el porque sucedio asi, tambien nos hace ver su relacion con importantes figuras del ambito...
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"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 in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager-"our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us"-she drops out of school and gets a crappy job. At night, she is plagued by a terrible brightness, and soon she drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia.
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 Bolaño’s first work available in English—recounts
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Es una historia vibrante sobre una serie de acontecimientos que un sacerdote del Opus Dei e importante crItico literario chileno viviO durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. SebastiAn Urrutia Lacroix nos narra sus recuerdos padeciendo una fiebre muy alta y nos hace partIcipes de algunos sucesos histOricos en los que El participO en su natal Chile y sin entender el porquE sucediO asI, tambiEn nos hace ver su relaciOn con importantes figuras del Ambito...
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Vintage Español
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2009, c2004
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Collects a series of five novellas from Roberto Bolaño, in which individuals are drawn for various reasons to the small Mexican border town of Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have disappeared over the span of a decade.