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“One of the more colorful gods in the pantheon of international literary myth . . . [Bolaño] follows his restless talent down every available rabbit hole.” —Sam Anderson, New York “When I read Roberto Bolaño, I think: Everything is possible again.” —Nicole Krauss, author of To Be a...

“[One] of his best.” —Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker “A masterpiece.” —Los Angeles Times The year is 1971, or perhaps 1972, in Salvador Allende’s Chile. Arturo B. is just one of a motley crew of young bohemians attending Juan Stein’s poetry workshop at the University of...

“Genius . . . [This] is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.” —Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review “Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Nazi Literature in the Americas is Roberto...

“Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.” —Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds “[Latin America’s] most vibrant expositor: an acid-tongued, truth-telling, peripatetic genius, who lived all too briefly, wrote in a...

“One of the greatest and most influential modern writers.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book Review “Bolaño is the real thing.” —n+1 In the quiet Spanish seaside town of Z, a horrific crime has been committed: a coldblooded murder on a secret ice rink in the abandoned Palacio...

“The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh...

“Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book Review “A marvelous river of feeling, a brilliant meditation, an enthralling fantasy—By Night in Chile is the real thing, and the rarest: a contemporary novel destined to have a permanent place in...

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

“Reading Roberto Bolaño is like . . . watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.” —Francine Prose, The New York Times “We savor all he has written, as every offering is a...

“One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation.” —John Banville, The Nation “A genius . . . Bolaño had the courage to look at the world anew.” —Ilan Stavans, The Washington Post Composed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto Bolaño’s The Return is...

The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people.