The Return
Published on 5. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-78487-951-8 (ISBN)
Description
'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 man looks back on his childhood and seeks out the now-aged male porn actor his mother shot movies with.
Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolano. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: The Return is a trove of strangely arresting short master works.
TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS
'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching... There is gold to be found in this collection' New York Review of Books
'Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts' Observer
'A compelling encapsulation of Bolano's work... You won't be bored' Los Angeles Times
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 man looks back on his childhood and seeks out the now-aged male porn actor his mother shot movies with.
Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolano. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: The Return is a trove of strangely arresting short master works.
TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS
'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching... There is gold to be found in this collection' New York Review of Books
'Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts' Observer
'A compelling encapsulation of Bolano's work... You won't be bored' Los Angeles Times
Reviews / Votes
'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . there is gold to be found in this collection' * New York Review of Books * Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts. * Observer * The sense of embattlement that animates the writing, and the scab-picking intensity that he brings to his obsessions, makes The Return a compelling encapsulation of Bolano's work . . . you won't be bored. * Los Angeles Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78487-951-8 (9781784879518)
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Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as 'the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation', he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.