By Night in Chile
  • Published: 28 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9781446442333
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

By Night in Chile

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28 Jul 2014
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Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ‘wizened youth’ who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later.

Translated by Chris Andrews

Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.
  • Published: 28 July 2014
  • ISBN: 9781446442333
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
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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 By Night in Chile

One of the greats of late 20th- and early 21st-century fiction

Guardian

The Chilean is being canonised by critics as the first great writer of this century

Financial Times

One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation... At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening

John Banville, The Nation

The most important writer to emerge from Latin America since Garcia Marquez

San Francisco Chronicle

Bolaño is the brightest literary star in the current Latin American panorama

El Pais
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