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.
A masterpiece * Time * Bolaño's most audacious performance . . . It is bold in a way that few works really are * Financial Times * Bolaño's masterwork . . . An often shockingly raunchy and violent tour de force * The New York Review of Books * Readers who have snacked on Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolaño. * Sunday Times * Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.