Roberto Bolaño

'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano’s short stories is that they can do the “work of a novel.” The Retu

'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime'So begins Bianca’s tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight

A National Books Critics Circle Award WinnerThe posthumous masterwork from "One of the greatest and most influential modern writers" (James Wood, The

Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.Roberto Bolaño's boundless gift for shaping the chaos o

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to M

This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolano's

Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. When it was published by Seix Barral in 1996, critics

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 fol

Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife ca

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 h

'A work of intense and unrealized longing' The New York TimesSet in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink os

'A master of the short form' - IndependentRoberto Bolaño's place as a giant of Latin American literature was confirmed by the publication of his posth