«A book filled with sorrows and joys and discoveries as Bolaño the poet takes up themes that are repeated often in his novels. For him, writers are men and women engaged in a sacred search, with poets the purest seekers of all. It's a pursuit that's all the more noble, given that Bolaño knows that the immortality writers seek is unattainable»

Los Angeles Times

«In verse, as in prose, Bolaño leads us on journeys through a surreal landscape of exile, longing and nostalgia.»

Independent

Section - i: Nota de los herederos del autor / Note from the author's heirs Unit - 1: PRIMERA PARTE / PART ONE Chapter - 1: La novela-nieve / The Snow-Novel Chapter - 2: Guiraut de Bornelh / Guiraut de Bornelh Chapter - 3: Calles de Barcelona / Streets of Barcelona Chapter - 4: En la sala de lecturas del Infierno / In the Reading Room of Hell Chapter - 5: San Roberto de Troya / Saint Roberto of Troy Chapter - 6: Nada malo me ocurrira / Nothing Bad Will Happen to Me Chapter - 7: Tu lejano corazon / Your Distant Heart Unit - 2: SEGUNDA PARTE / PART TWO Chapter - 8: Tres textos / Three Texts Chapter - 9: Gente que se aleja / People Walking Away Chapter - 10: Iceberg / Iceberg Chapter - 11: Prosa del otono en Gerona / Prose from Autumn in Gerona Chapter - 12: Manifiestos y posiciones / Manifestos and Positions Unit - 3: TERCERA PARTE / PART THREE Chapter - 13: Poemas perdidos / Lost Poems Chapter - 14: Nueve poemas / Nine Poems Chapter - 15: Mi vida en los tubos de supervivencia / My Life in the Tubes of Survival Chapter - 16: Un final feliz / A Happy Ending Section - ii: [Notas del autor, sin titulo] / [Author's notes, untitled] Section - iii: Breve historia del libro / Brief history of the book, by Carolina Lopez Index - iv: Indice de titulos y primeras lineas en Espanol / Index of English titles and first lines Section - v: Translator's note

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives won the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize and Natasha Wimmer's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation", in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666.