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Zusatztext All three texts offer something unique and at times fascinating . . . a rare opportunity for the reader to witness the creation of a seemingly inexhaustible body of work. Informationen zum Autor Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives , won the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times . Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation", in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666 . Klappentext Praise for ROBERTO BOLAÑO 'One of the greatest and most distinctive voices in modern fiction . . . Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolaño.' Sunday Times 'Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world.' Guardian 'The most influential and admired novelist of his generation.' Susan Sontag 'When I read Bolaño I think: Everything is possible again. To step inside his books is to accustom yourself, as much as is possible, to walking along the edge of an abyss.' Nicole Krauss 'One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening.' John Banville Vorwort Found in the author’s archive and published for the first time: a collection of three novellas – a joy for the many fans and followers of Roberto Bolaño. Zusammenfassung Found in the author’s archive and published for the first time: a collection of three novellas – a joy for the many fans and followers of Roberto Bolaño....
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Companionable, exotic, witty and glamorously suggestive . . . A primary element in the compound that keeps Bolañoites hooked is the voice: it hardly matters what it's saying, or what the torrent of words ultimately amounts to, when it speaks so seductively. Observer
