A novel written in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life.

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men.

A collection of fourteen stories set largely in the world of the Chilean diaspora in Central America and Europe.

Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in violence, flight, and permanent exile.

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 woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for twelve days she is the only person left on campus.

Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border, is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls. Among them are three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; and a police detective in love with an elusive older woman. But there is darker side still to the town.

During the course of a single night, Fatherr Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. This title offers glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger, General Pinochet, whom Father Lacroix instructs in Marxist doctrine.

A collection of fourteen stories by the acclaimed Chilean author. Set largely in the world of the Chilean diaspora in Central America and Europe, the narrators of these stories are usually writers grappling with private quests who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witness to a crime.

Attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. This book narrates the story of Alberto Ruiz-Tagle - a little-known poet living in southern Chile who subsequently emergeed as a lieutenant in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder.

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men.

Presents a researched survey of the writers who have contributed to pan-American Nazi literature. Documenting the lives, politics and literary works of these writers, this title offers an account of the writers who have shaped the literary landscape of the Americas.

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An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and world of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile.

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life.