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Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . there is gold to be found in this collection'
New York Review of Books
Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts.
Observer
The sense of embattlement that animates the writing, and the scab-picking intensity that he brings to his obsessions, makes <i>The Return</i> a compelling encapsulation of Bolaño's work . . . you won't be bored.
Los Angeles Times
‘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 favourite weapons. A violent man looks back on his childhood and seeks out the now-aged male porn actor his mother shot movies with.
Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolaño. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: The Return is a trove of strangely arresting short master works.
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'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching... There is gold to be found in this collection' New York Review of Books
‘Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts’ Observer
‘A compelling encapsulation of Bolaño's work... You won't be bored’ Los Angeles Times