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Making allusions to Don Quixote's wanderings on his trusty steed Rosinante, American novelist John Dos Passos creates a story of two travelers making their way by foot from Madrid to Toledo in post-World War I Spain. Along the way, they encounter simple, earthy folk on the trail and in taverns, thus providing a convenient backdrop for Dos Passos's observations on the tension between old agrarian ways and new industrial imperatives.

Brought to you by Penguin. 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 the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world – but every door opens onto a...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘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. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary...

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘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 that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable return to the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge. Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old masion on the outskirts of...

“Extraordinarily beautiful . . . [Like] a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.” —Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé...

“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...

“Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything.” —Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review “A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores.” —Giles Harvey, The New Yorker Often called the “big bang” of Roberto Bolaño’s...