The Return
Roberto Bolaño
(Author)
Chris Andrews
(Translator)
Description
The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories that seem to tell what Bolano called "the secret story," "the one we'll never know." Bent on returning to haunt you, Bolano's tales might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend, or soccer, witchcraft, or a dream of meeting the poet Enrique Lihn: they always surprise. Consider the title story: a young partygoer collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor. Just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange happenings are afoot around his now dead body -- and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolano's own).
Product Details
Price
$14.95
$13.90
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
September 20, 2012
Pages
208
Dimensions
5.1 X 7.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780811219051
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About the Author
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.
Reviews
"Dark, intimate and sneakily touching: there is gold to be found in this collection."-- "The New York Review of Books"
"The sense of embattlement that animates the writing, and the scab-picking intensity that he brings to his obsessions, makes The Return a compelling encapsulation of Bolano's work."-- "The Los Angeles Times"
Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts.-- "The Guardian"
"The sense of embattlement that animates the writing, and the scab-picking intensity that he brings to his obsessions, makes The Return a compelling encapsulation of Bolano's work."-- "The Los Angeles Times"
Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts.-- "The Guardian"
