The Secret of Evil

Roberto Bolano has been hailed a giant of Latin American literature and 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 caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul, the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation''s political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666 ) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano - Bolano''s alter ego - returns to Mexico City and meets a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano''s son Geronimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory . . . Opening The Secret of Evil is like being granted access to the Chilean master''s personal files; it offers a final opportunity to read the work of an intense, brilliant and truly original writer.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño, BOLANO ROBERTO
• Assisted by: Chris Andrews (Translation), Natasha Wimmer (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.06.2015
• EAN: 9780330510660
• ISBN: 978-0-330-51066-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Essays, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Latin America, France, Fiction in translation, Autobiography: literary, Biographical, Literary essays, Speeches, Caribbean & Latin American