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2666 by Roberto Bolano
$39.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERNew York Times Book Review "10 Best Books of 2008 """Time "Magazine's"" Best Book of 2008 "Los Angeles Times "Best Books of 2008 """San Francisco Chronicle'"s 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 """Seattle Times "Best Books of 2008 """New York Magazine "Top Ten Books ...Show more
A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager - 'our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us' - she drops out of school, ge ...Show more
Amulet by Roberto Bolano
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
This is a highly charged novel that embodies the violent recent history of Latin America. It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one w ...Show more
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
Antwerp is Bolano intensified and distilled. As his friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, it can be viewed as the Big Bang of his fictional universe. It is the birth of Bolano's enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent e ...Show more
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano' Sunday Times Cesar Vallejo, renowned Peruvian poet, lies dying in hospital he's hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife pins her hopes on the mesmerist and reclusive b ...Show more
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
$34.99 AUD
Category: General
This is the first UK publication of the brilliant and innovative work that made Bolano the most admired Spanish writer of his generation. Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as an encyclopedia of extremely right-wing writers. Composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors (t ...Show more
The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolano
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Category: General | Reading Level: 16
Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled and yet somehow haywire, the five short stories included here are some of Bolano's best. Whether they concern a stalwart rodent detective trying to investigate the mysterious deaths of his fellow rats, an elderly judge giving up his job in the city for an impr ...Show more
The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolano
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
This bilingual collection of forty-four poems presents English readers with their first chance to encounter the phenomenon of Roberto Bolano as a poet: his own preferred and strongest literary persona. (When asked, 'What makes you believe that you're a better poet than a novelist?' Bolano replied, 'The ...Show more
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
National BestsellerIn this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe ...Show more
The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
Roberto Bolano confirmed his place as a giant of Latin American literature with his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious call ...Show more
The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolano
$27.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives. 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 i ...Show more
Tres by Roberto Bolano
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | Reading Level: 16
Roberto Bolano's own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. 'Prose from Autumn in Gerona', a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequi ...Show more