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 [...]

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, '[...]

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 unr[...]

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, "Woes of the True ""Policeman "is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished novel.The novel follows Oscar Amalfitano--an exiled Chilean university professor and widower--through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his t[...]

A first English-language collection of fourteen short stories by a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award-winning writer features protagonists who are struggling with private, often unlucky quests during which they are marginalized to the point of terror.[...]

Written as a biographical dictionary of twentieth- and twenty-first-century contributors who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies, a series of fictional character portraits is thematically organized under such headings as "Forerunners and Figures of the Anti-Enlightenment" and "North American Poet[...]

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, gets a[...]

A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent his summers as a child. There, they meet another vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker sid[...]

First published in Spanish in 1998, The Savage Detectives was immediately hailed as a critical success, wining the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. But with the 2007 English-language translation the book became more than a bestseller -- it began the global sensation of Bolanomania. New [...]

When Oscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced t[...]