Antwerp

Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing. A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world - but every door opens onto a nightmare. An experimental novella, spliced together in vignettes, Antwerp is Roberto Bola�o's first work of fiction. A personal declaration of the power of literature, to read it is to be present at `the big bang' of Bola�o's enterprise into prose, to see the beginning, to witness the moment when his talent explodes. TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER'A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bola�o fan's bookshelf' Daily Telegraph`Bola�o set a new speed limit for literature. He simply wrote past other authors... His books are volcanic, perilous, charged with infectious erotic energy and demonic lucidity' Benjam�n Labatut, author of The Maniac