Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin American and Europe, and peopled by Bolano’s beloved “failed generation,” these stories are unimaginably gripping. His narrators are usually writers living on the margins and grappling with private (and often unlucky) quests. Reading Roberto Bolano is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric of the particular, watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.” “The melancholy folklore of exile,” as Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Roberto Bolano’s story collection Last Evenings on Earth was acclaimed by Francine Prose in The New York Times Book Review as “something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new….
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