Description
| Product ID: | 9781509851935 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Cowboy Graves |
| Subtitle: | Three Novellas |
| Authors: | Author: Roberto Bolano |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation, Mexico, Chile |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Found in the author’s archive and published for the first time: a collection of three novellas – a joy for the many fans and followers of Roberto Bolaño. <p><b>'Companionable, exotic, witty and glamorously suggestive' <i>Observer</i></b><br><br><b>One more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature</b><br><br>Roberto Bolaño’s boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas.<br><br>In ‘Cowboy Graves’, Arturo Belano – Bolaño’s alter ego – returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. ‘French Comedy of Horrors’ takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen-year-old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based 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 and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead.<br><br><i>Cowboy Graves</i> is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a master of contemporary fiction. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño’s extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his great triumphs, while deepening our understanding of his profound gifts.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-02-18 |
