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Secret of Evil by Bolano, Roberto, Andrews, Chris
$30.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolano
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 16
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 impr ...Show more
The Return by Roberto Bolano
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories that seem to tell what Bolano called the secret story, the one we ll never know. Bent on returning to haunt you, Bolano s tales might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend, or soccer, witchcraft, or a dream of meeting the poet Enrique ...Show more
The Return by Roberto Bolano
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they seem to tell what Bolano called 'the secret story', 'the one we'll never know'. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable tales bent on returning to haunt you, most of them appearing in English for the first time here. Wide-ranging, ...Show more
The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolano
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, 'The ...Show more
The Romantic Dogs [BT] by Roberto Bolano
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in for ...Show more
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectiv ...Show more
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador 40th | Reading Level: 16
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 Year ...Show more
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
$44.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
National BestsellerIn this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe ...Show more
The Spirit of Science Fiction by Roberto Bolano
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives. Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life i ...Show more
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano, Natasha Wimmer
$33.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
War-games champion Udo Berger and his girlfriend Ingeborg are on holiday. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace.Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo ref ...Show more
The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form. When asked, 'What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?' Bolano replied, 'The poetry makes me blush less'. In 1993, fearing for his health, Bolano began collecting the poetry he had ...Show more