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Last Evenings on Earth
Roberto Bolano
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Description for Last Evenings on Earth
Paperback. Features an introduction to author's writing. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolaño's writing. Bolaño's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats. His stories are often witty, frequently melancholy and always original.
This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolaño's writing. Bolaño's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats. His stories are often witty, frequently melancholy and always original.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099469421
SKU
V9780099469421
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About Roberto Bolano
Roberto Bolaño (Author) Roberto Bolaño 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Last Evenings on Earth
The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world Bolaño's language, alert and always graceful, his way of constructing narratives that are simultaneously disconcerting, brilliant and infinitely immediate, is a form of resisting evil, adversity and mediocrity
Le Monde
‘Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.’
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Le Monde
‘Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.’
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