Last Evenings on Earth
"Conjures dreamlike worlds that shock with their familiarity."
Fourteen dark tales about the tragic qualities of exile feature protagonists who are struggling with marginal lives and private, often ill-fated, quests, in a collection set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe. Les mer
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Fourteen dark tales about the tragic qualities of exile feature protagonists who are struggling with marginal lives and private, often ill-fated, quests, in a collection set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe. Reprint.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780811216883
- Utgivelsesår
- 2007
- Format
- 21 x 13 cm
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"Conjures dreamlike worlds that shock with their familiarity."
Philip Herter - St. Petersburg Times
"Just behind the nervy, deadpan narrative a total breakdown perpetually looms."
Andersen Tepper - Village Voice
"The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world."
Susan Sontag
"Widely known in the Spanish-speaking world as the premier writer of his generation."
Dan Pope - Hartford Courant
"[B]leakly luminous stories..."
Publishers Weekly
"Complex and provocative."
International Herald Tribune
"His generation's premier Latin-American writer... Bolaño's reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent."
Larry Rohter - The New York Times
"I am addicted to the haze that floats above Bolaño's fiction."
Wayne Kostenbaum - Bookforum
"If you haven't heard of Roberto Bolaño yet, you will soon."
Benjamin Lytal - The New York Sun
"Bolaño's characters yearn for amnesia as well as for the ability to connect to someone or something in the present."
Stephanie Hanson - Los Angeles Times
"Brilliant."
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