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, suggestive, and daring, a Bolano story is just as likely to concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend, the history of a porn star or two embittered police detectives debating their favourite weapons: his plots go anywhere and everywhere and they always surprise. Consider the title piece: a young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor; just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange doings are afoot - and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolano's own, of course).
Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
ISBN:
9780330510608
Binding:
Hardback
Pub. Date:
01/10/2012
Category:
Children's: Short Stories
Imprint:
Picador
Pages:
Stock:
In stock
Price:
$34.99 AUD
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Amulet
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Between Parentheses
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Monsieur Pain
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
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The Insufferable Gaucho
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The Insufferable Gaucho
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The Return
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The Return
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The Romantic Dogs
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The Savage Detectives
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The Savage Detectives
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The Savage Detectives
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The Secret of Evil
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The Secret of Evil
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The Skating Rink
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The Third Reich
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The Unknown University
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Tres
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Woes of the True Policeman
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Woes of the True Policeman
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