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The most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation. * The New York Times Book Review * Bolaño's voice demands attention. * The New Yorker * It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius * Washington Post * Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world * Guardian * An event of language and devilish wit * Wall Street Journal *

The most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation. * The New York Times Book Review * One of our greatest writers...Latin American letters (wherever it may reside) has never had a greater, more disturbing avenging angel than Bolaño. -- Junot Díaz * The New York Times Book Review * The writing never feels stale but, rather incredibly, shines anew....The publication of a Bolaño novel, complete or not, is never anything less than an event of language and devilish wit. * The Wall Street Journal * Bolaño's voice demands attention. * The New Yorker * Indelible Bolaño...[Woes of the True Policeman] may offer insight into the writer's larger project. * Los Angeles Times *

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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.

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