Roberto Bolaño

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

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New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. La novela narra la búsqueda de la poetisa mexicana Cesárea Tinajero, por parte de dos jóvenes poetas fundadores...

"Between Parentheses" collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolaño wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks and a few scattered prologues. Taken together, as the editor Ignacio Echevarría remarks in his Introduction, they provide a personal cartography of the writer.

Texts Bolano was working on before he died: completed stories, sketches for larger works, essays, and fragments. "Este volumen viene a ser el torso o la armadura inevitablemente incompleta del que iba a ser el cuarto libro de relatos de Roberto Bolaño. El puñado de piezas y de esbozos narrativos aquí reunidos tiene por base un archivo de texto muy tardío en el que Bolaño estuvo trabajando hasta poco antes de su muerte. A él se han agregado...

The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime.

Bolaño crafts a tale about a Chilean Jesuit priest contemplating his life and legacy as he lies on his deathbed. Moments from death, Father Sebastién Urrutia Lacroix remembers his days as a young poet meeting Pablo Neruda and novelist Maria Canales. "Sebastién Urrutia Lacroix nos narra sus recuerdos padeciendo una fiebre muy alta y nos hace partícipes de algunos sucesos históricos en los que él participó en su natal Chile y sin entender el...