Roberto Bolaño & Chris Andrews 
Distant Star [EPUB ebook] 

A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.

The star of Roberto Bolano’s hair-raising novel
Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.
For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this ‘star’ in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet’s regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano’s darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano’s world there’s a big graveyard and there’s a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel
By Night in Chile as ‘a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.’)
Many Chilean authors have written about the ‘bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders, ‘ Richard Eder commented in the
The New York Times: ‘None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano.’

About the author

The poet and translator Chris Andrews has won the Valle Inclan Prize and the French-American Translation Prize for his work.