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A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolano
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager - 'our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us' - she drops out of school, ge ...Show more
Amulet by Roberto Bolano
36.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
This is a highly charged novel that embodies the violent recent history of Latin America. It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one w ...Show more
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A story of hopeless love, desperate grief and the power of guilt: "Monsieur Pain" is a hallucinatory masterwork by the great Roberto Bolano. Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies dying in hospital. He's hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis his wife call ...Show more
The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Roberto Bolano confirmed his place as a giant of Latin American literature with his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Included in this one-of-a-kind collection is everything he was working on just before his death in 2003. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious call ...Show more
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday to the Costa Brava. He brings along his new game, The Third Reich, which he plans to practice for the upcoming wargames tournament in Paris, where he will finally meet the sleek ...Show more
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: 16
War-games champion Udo Berger and his girlfriend Ingeborg are on holiday. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace. Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo re ...Show more
Tres by Roberto Bolano
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 16
Roberto Bolano's own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. 'Prose from Autumn in Gerona', a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequi ...Show more
Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Taking us back to the world and characters of his acclaimed masterpiece, 2666, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished, novel. When Oscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has no idea where it will lead. More than ...Show more
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