The Return
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879518
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Return

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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’s work – now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.

‘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 Bolaño. 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 Bolaño's work... You won't be bored’ Los Angeles Times
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879518
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

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.

Also by Roberto Bolaño

The Savage Detectives
2666
The Insufferable Gaucho
The Skating Rink
The Third Reich
Woes of the True Policeman
The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño
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Praise for The Return

'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 Bolaño's work . . . you won't be bored.

Los Angeles Times
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