A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolao fans bookshelf . . . the sentences whizz over your head like bullets. * Daily Telegraph * Its hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bolao. * Guardian * There is great value if you are already a devotee. * The Morning News, Boston *
Roberto Bolao was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.