Description
Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolaño. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: a trove of strangely arresting, short master works.
As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano’s short stories is that they can do the “work of a novel.” The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories bent on returning to haunt you. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and daring, a Bolano story might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend or a dream of meeting Enrique Lihn: his plots go anywhere and everywhere and they always surprise. Consider the title piece: a young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor; just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange doings are afoot—and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolano’s own).
Although a few have been serialized in The New Yorker and Playboy, most of the stories of The Return have never before appeared in English, and to Bolano’s many readers will be like catnip to the cats.
Although a few have been serialized in The New Yorker and Playboy, most of the stories of The Return have never before appeared in English, and to Bolano’s many readers will be like catnip to the cats.
Reviews
"Bolaño has joined the immortals." — The Washington Post
"Bolaño has proven [literature] can do anything." — Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times
"A rare and precious collection…. [It] transports you on as many tiny, immersive vacations as there are stories in the book." — Venus Zine
Also By: Roberto Bolaño 
The Romantic Dogs: Poems
E Book, 2014
Listed as a "2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten" book by the American Booksellers Association: Roberto Bolaño as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet.
The Insufferable Gaucho
Paperback, 2013
These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolaño as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.
The Insufferable Gaucho
E Book, 2013
These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolaño as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.Antwerp
E Book, 2012
Bolaño’s radical first novel makes its paperback debut as a New Directions Pearl.Monsieur Pain
E Book, 2012
Roberto Bolaño takes us into an odd, dark, but comic underworld in this strangely tender noir novel.
Also By: Chris Andrews
I Don't Care
Paperback, 2024
Never before translated short stories—“stark and haunting” (San Francisco Chronicle)—by the legendary genius Ágota Kristóf
Fulgentius
Paperback, 2023
Aira holds a fun-house mirror up to the genre of historical fiction in this novel about an aging Roman general on what may be his last campaign into the provinces.
The Famous Magician
Hardback, 2022
A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?
The Famous Magician
E Book, 2022
A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?
The Divorce
Paperback, 2021
With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate...
