The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolano

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER`A master of the short form' IndependentWide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bola�o's short stories map out the dark terrain that he would go on to explore in his novellas and epic novels. From melancholic portraits of exile and its folklore to a rogue's gallery of desperate characters futilely attempting to unearth the animating secrets of the world, each of Bola�o's short fictions adds yet another door, a window, a secret passage onto the sinister, eerie universe that Bola�o brought to life across his body of work. Bringing together Last Evenings on Earth, The Return and The Insufferable Gaucho, as well as Bola�o's posthumously published stories, this new book marks the first time these fictions have been collected in one edition, allowing for a major reappraisal of the vital place that the short story commands for Bola�o's literary legacy. `Bola�o was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time' Paul Auster`Bola�o was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled' Mariana Enr�quez