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Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing. A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world – but every door opens…

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile’s young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile’s leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high…

Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author.…

‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...’A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial…

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of…

‘If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear...’A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable…

‘In this neighbourhood, only the dead go out for a walk’... A young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor, only to watch his soul departing his body. Two embittered police detectives debate their favourite weapons.A violent…

Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge. Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old masion on the outskirts…

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 in the literary world. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite…

War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday. Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights,…

When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever.…

New Year’s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero.But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey…

Román Amulet navazuje na Divoké detektivy, podobně jako Vzdálená hvězda navazovala na Nacistickou literaturu v Americe. Vypravěčkou je Auxilio Lacouture, uruguayská básnířka a matka všech mexických básníků, která se v září roku 1968 při policejním zásahu…

Posmrtně vydaný román Třetí říše (vydáno 2010) napsal chilský autor Roberto Bolano (1953–2003) už roku 1989, v prvním období své spisovatelské dráhy, s jeho vydáním však váhal, neboť vypravěčská struktura této knihy se poněkud vymykala celkovému rámci…

Útlý román Vzdálená hvězda vznikl rozpracováním posledního příběhu Nacistické literatury v Americe . Vypravěč líčí se směsí hrůzy a fascinace několik epizod ze života básníka, s nímž se seznámil počátkem 70. let na básnické dílně a pak se s ním znovu…

2666 is the epic novel that defined one of Latin America's greatest writers and Roberto Bolano's unique vision of the twentieth century.

A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a young writer's fierce ambitions and intensely tender love of women.

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst…

Chilan Roberto Bolano (1953–2003), básník a prozaik, je v současnosti zřejmě nejvýraznější postavou latinskoamerické literatury. V této knize vypráví příběh dvou „divokých detektivů“, básníků-desperátů Artura Belana a Odyssea Limy a jejich přátel, umělců…

Touto knihou, vydanou v roce 1996, na sebe dnes slavný Roberto Bolaňo poprvé upoutal pozornost. Formálně se tváří jako slovník spisovatelů, ale žádná slavná jména skutečných latinskoamerických autorů, kteří si tak či onak zadali s fašistickou ideologií,…

V kompozičně bohatém románu 2666 se mísí detektivka s eposem, filozofický román s básní, citová výchova s vědeckofantastickou literaturou, novinová reportáž s lékařskými záznamy šílených stavů choré mysli. Hlavními hrdiny jsou tři profesoři německé literatury,…