Roberto Bolaño

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work—now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. '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...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale - she is the Mother of Mexican poetry. A...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. 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...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud, the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain....

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world. But as close as these friends are, the...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work — now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday. Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, and...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Marti'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...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. On New Year's Eve, 1975, two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. '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 as a teenager, she drops out of school and...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. In this neighbourhood, only the dead go out for a walk... A young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor, only to watch his soul departing his body. Two embittered police detectives debate their...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile's leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border—an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author....

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. '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...

Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless gift for shaping the chaos of reality into fiction is unmistakable across these three novellas. In Cowboy Graves, Arturo Belano – Bolaño's alter ego – returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. French Comedy of Horrors finds...

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda,...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: TOP TEN THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement,...

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 world literature. --Susan Sontag The book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom,...

Enjoy a brief encounter with Roberto Bolaño, the 21st century's first, great classic author, and his novella Distant Star—a dark, haunting, yet delightfully magical story of two poets outplaying one another in a sinister endgame of cat-and-mouse. A dazzling, daring tale of poets at the end of the world, Distant Star is Roberto Bolaño's miniature dystopian masterpiece. Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was...