Last Evenings On Earth

`This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...'A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a prot�g� in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda. `The melancholy folklore of exile,' as Roberto Bola�o once put it, pervades the fourteen haunting stories of Last Evenings on Earth. Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved `failed generation,' this collection was the first to introduce the English-speaking world to Bola�o's immeasurable gifts as a short-story writer. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS`May be the most haunting and mesmerising collection I have ever read' Daily Telegraph`It is a shame that Bola�o has no more evenings on earth, his unique voice asserting the importance and exuberance of literature will be sorely missed' Guardian