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  • Published: 15 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099469421
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99

Last Evenings On Earth




The first collection of stories in English by the author considered to be the finest Latin American writer of his generation.

This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolaño's writing. Bolaño's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats. His stories are often witty, frequently melancholy and always original.

  • Published: 15 April 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099469421
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and died in 2003 in Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost Latin American novelists of his generation and his work has won him numerous literary prizes.

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Praise for Last Evenings On Earth

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

Daily Telegraph

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

Susan Sontag

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