Author: Roberto Bola o.

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Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the …

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile s young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile s leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder …

This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bola o’s writing. Bola o’s narrators are grappling with th …

New Year s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala.Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Ces rea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on t …

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 …

Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex.Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with …

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Ameri …

If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear… A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly jud …

In this neighbourhood, only the dead go out for a walk …A young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor, only to watch his soul departing his body. Two embittered pol …

Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Mart s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy and revenge.Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink …

Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City.Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world. But as close as …

War-games champion Udo Berger is finally on holiday.Travelling to the Costa Brava with his long-ignored girlfriend, Ingeborg, there they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and …

When Oscar Amalfitano begins an affair with one of his students, he has no idea where it will lead.More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous expos …

‘Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime’So begins Bianca s tale of growing up the hard way. Orphaned overnight as a teenager, she drops out of school and drifts …

Auxilio Lacouture is trapped.For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of …

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 …

Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.Roberto Bola o’s boundless gift for shaping the chaos of reality into fiction is unmistakable across the …

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile s young poetry scene.But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile s leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. …

Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reyna …

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying.A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him.From glimpses of the g …

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRIS POWER A master of the short form Independent Wide-ranging, suggestive, and ever-daring, Roberto Bola o’s short stories map out the dark terrain that he would go on to ex …