The Third Reich
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879556
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Third Reich

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

War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday.

Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace.

Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home. Increasingly frightened, the situation slips beyond his grasp and Udo suddenly realizes that the consequences of this ‘game’ are much more serious than he ever imagined.

TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER

‘Capering, weird, rascally and short... The Third Reich is giddily funny, but it is also prickly and bizarre enough to count among Bolaño’s first-rate efforts’ The Economist

‘A mesmerizing tale: sleek, linear, easily digested, beautifully translated… Classic Bolaño’ Washington Post
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879556
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • 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.

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Praise for The Third Reich

A perfect novel...Compassionate, disturbing, and deeply felt, it's as much of a gift as anything the late author has given us.

NPR

Think Kafka at a beach resort...For those who like their literature to make them look with fear and suspicion at even the most mundane events, The Third Reich is calling.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Bolaño is a master of atmosphere

The Wall Street Journal

A brilliant first novel...all the more remarkable for its prescience.

The New Republic

Bolaño's voice demands attention

The New Yorker

Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental

Times Literary Supplement

Roberto Bolaño’s uncontrollable storytelling pulsion, his savage way of using adjectives, his melancholic, almost tormented urban realism, changed the tone of a whole tradition

Álvaro Enrigue

When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again

Nicole Krauss
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