The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño

<b>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER<br> <br> 'A master of the short form' <i>Independent</i></b><br> <br> <b>Wide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bolano's short stories map out the dark terrain that he would go on to explore in his novellas and epic novels.</b><br> <br> From melancholic portraits of exile and its folklore to a rogue's gallery of desperate characters futilely attempting to unearth the animating secrets of the world, each of Bolano's short fictions adds yet another door, a window, a secret passage onto the sinister, eerie universe that Bolano brought to life across his body of work.<br> <br> Bringing together <i>Last Evenings on Earth</i>, <i>The Return</i> and <i>The Insufferable Gaucho</i>, as well as Bolano's posthumously published stories, this new book marks the first time these fictions have been collected in one edition, allowing for a major reappraisal of the vital place that the short story commands for Bolano's literary legacy.<br> <br> <b>'Bolano was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time' Paul Auster<br> <br> 'Bolano was a game changer- his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled' Mariana Enriquez</b>