The Return

by Roberto Bolaño

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811217159
• ISBN13: 9780811217156
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"