The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world -- Susan Sontag

This may be the most haunting and mesmerising collection I have ever read ― Daily Telegraph

A book full of insight for writers and aficionados of South American literature and culture ― Scotland on Sunday

It is a shame that Bolaño has no more evenings on earth, his unique voice asserting the importance and exuberance of literature will be sorely missed ― Guardian

Bolaño's language, alert and always graceful, his way of constructing narratives that are simultaneously disconcerting, brilliant and infinitely immediate, is a form of resisting evil, adversity and mediocrity ― Le Monde

About the Author

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.