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Distant Star

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Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile''s young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile''s leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider''s dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. Where did this talent suddenly spring from? And, how is it connected to the disappearance of the beautiful Garmendia twins? Told from across the years in exile in Europe, the narrator''s attempts to trace the fate of his old circle will lead him to one last confrontation with the brutality of their generation. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS ''Roberto Bolano''s universe - huge, interconnected, polyphonic - is formed from the collision of a wicked sense of humour and a vast and white-hot moral fire... His oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century'' Lauren Groff ''For stunning wit, brutal honesty, loving humanity and a heart that bleeds into the simplest of words, no other writer ever came close'' Marlon James

About the author

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.Chris Andrews was born in Newcastle, Australia, in 1962. He teaches in the department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies of the University of Melbourne. His translation of Roberto Bolaño's Distant Star in 2005 won the prestigious Valle-Inclán Prize.

Product details

Authors Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño
Assisted by Chris Andrews (Translation)
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 03.10.2024
 
EAN 9781784879457
ISBN 978-1-78487-945-7
Dimensions 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Chile, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, Fiction in translation, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Politics, FICTION / World Literature / Chile, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II

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