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2666 by Roberto Bolano
$54.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERNew York Times Book Review "10 Best Books of 2008 """Time "Magazine's"" Best Book of 2008 "Los Angeles Times "Best Books of 2008 """San Francisco Chronicle'"s 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 """Seattle Times "Best Books of 2008 """New York Magazine "Top Ten Books ...Show more
A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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, ge ...Show more
AMULET by BOLANO ROBERTO
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, a ...Show more
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano; Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New Directions Pearls Ser.
Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano's fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolano's enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard--which Bolano ...Show more
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 16
Antwerp was Roberto Bolano's first novel, though he chose not to publish it until 2002, more than twenty years after he'd written it. Set amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites on the Costa Brava and filled with hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen, Antwerp is a short and cinematic ...Show more
BY NIGHT IN CHILE by BOLANO ROBERTO
$18.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel-Roberto Bolano's first work available in English-recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a p ...Show more
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolano
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: 16
Roberto Bolano is most widely known for his groundbreaking novels and irreverent poetry, but as he became increasingly famous he found himself in great demand as a writer of non-fiction. Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolano wrote during the last five years of hi ...Show more
Between Parentheses - Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolano; Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
$39.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Between Parentheses collects Roberto Bolano's nonfiction: fiercely opinionated articles, speeches, essays, and talks, as well as most of the newspaper columns he wrote during the last five years of his life, when fame had come to him at last. Here we have a tender account of his return to Chile, reflect ...Show more
Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dictator ...Show more
Last Evenings On Earth by Bolano, Roberto
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ernest Hemingway once said that a good story was like an iceberg; what is visible is always smaller than the part that remains hidden beneath the water, which confers intensity, mystery, power and meaning on what floats on the surface. This is certainly true of the fourteen stories here, the first colle ...Show more
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano' Sunday Times Cesar Vallejo, renowned Peruvian poet, lies dying in hospital he's hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife pins her hopes on the mesmerist and reclusive b ...Show more
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bolano: "his generation's premier Latin-American writer" ("The New York Times"). A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, "Nazi Literature in the Americas" ...Show more