By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño

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Paperback | 3 October 2024

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144 Pages

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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano'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, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the 'wizened youth' who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later.

TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS

'The wit, the horror, the ambition, the strangeness; Roberto Bolano's work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever' Chris Power

'Few are the writers who have mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bolano is among the best at this diabolical skill' Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter

About the Author

Roberto Bolano 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.

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