Roberto Bolaño

'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western

A National Books Critics Circle Award WinnerThe posthumous masterwork from "One of the greatest and most influential modern writers" (James Wood, The

'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime'So begins Bianca’s tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight

Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.Roberto Bolaño's boundless gift for shaping the chaos o

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

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn Roberto Bolaño's The Third Reich war-games champion Udo Berger and his girlfriend Ingeborg are on holid

This treasure trove of disquieting short master-works from the giant of Latin American literature perfectly encapsulates 'the fact that Bolaño writes

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

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel.The novel fol

'A work of intense and unrealized longing' The New York TimesSet in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink os

'A master of the short form' - IndependentRoberto Bolaño's place as a giant of Latin American literature was confirmed by the publication of his posth

Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife ca

Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing.A detective sets out to find them. They search among the h

As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano’s short stories is that they can do the “work of a novel.” The Retu