Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on...
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