{"product_id":"9781784879488","title":"The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolano","description":"\u003cp\u003eWITH 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732887224696,"sku":"9781784879488","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781784879488.jpg?v=1794308358","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781784879488","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}