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2666 by Roberto Bolano
$75.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, "THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW") Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, "2666 "was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in ...Show more
2666 by Roberto Bolano
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: good-very good
With an introduction by Ben Lerner. The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life. Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban spraw ...Show more
2666 by Roberto Bolano
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border, is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls. Among them are three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; and a police detective in love with an elusive older woman.
2666 by Roberto Bolano
$65.00 NZD
Category: History | 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
Amulet by Roberto Bolano
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is a highly charged novel that embodies the violent recent history of Latin America. It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one w ...Show more
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Antwerp is Bolano intensified and distilled. As his friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, it can be viewed as the Big Bang of his fictional universe. It is the birth of Bolano's enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent e ...Show more
Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
$27.99 NZD
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
Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
$28.99 NZD
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
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
$30.00 NZD
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
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A story of hopeless love, desperate grief and the power of guilt: "Monsieur Pain" is a hallucinatory masterwork by the great Roberto Bolano. Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies dying in hospital. He's hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis his wife call ...Show more