Cowboy Graves (Paperback) - Roberto Bolano

Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.

Roberto Bolano's boundless gift for shaping the chaos of reality into fiction is unmistakable across these three novellas. In 'Cowboy Graves,' Arturo Belano - Bolano's alter ego - returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. 'French Comedy of Horrors' finds a seventeen-year-old recruited into a secret society of artists in the sewers of Paris. And in 'Fatherland,' a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence.

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'His work is as vital, thrilling and life-enhancing as anything in modern fiction' Sunday Times

'Fascinating... A rare opportunity for the reader to witness the creation of a seemingly inexhaustible body of work' El Pais

About the Author

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.