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Book SynopsisThe first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.
Trade Review"Complex and provocative." -- International Herald Tribune
"His generation's premier Latin-American writer... Bolaño's reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent." -- Larry Rohter - The New York Times
"I am addicted to the haze that floats above Bolaño's fiction." -- Wayne Kostenbaum - Bookforum
"If you haven't heard of Roberto Bolaño yet, you will soon." -- Benjamin Lytal - The New York Sun
"Bolaño's characters yearn for amnesia as well as for the ability to connect to someone or something in the present." -- Stephanie Hanson - Los Angeles Times
"Brilliant." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Conjures dreamlike worlds that shock with their familiarity." -- Philip Herter - St. Petersburg Times
"Just behind the nervy, deadpan narrative a total breakdown perpetually looms." -- Andersen Tepper - Village Voice
"The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world." -- Susan Sontag
"Widely known in the Spanish-speaking world as the premier writer of his generation." -- Dan Pope - Hartford Courant
"[B]leakly luminous stories..." -- Publishers Weekly
