Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas

Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. A poet and novelist, he has been acclaimed as "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Los Angeles Times), and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He is widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. His books include The Savage Detectives, 2666, The Spirit of Science Fiction, By Night in Chile, Distant Star, Last Evenings on Earth, and The Romantic Dogs.

One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature

Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead.

These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.

A GENIUS IN HIS PRIME: These three novellas were written simultaneously with Bolaño's masterpieces. These small scale works are as accomplished as his best writing, and will delight literary fans.THE FINAL BOOK?: The Bolaño family believes these to be the final complete pieces in the author's extensive archive left benind after his death. While new discoveries are always possible, this appears to be the final "new" Bolaño book.A LITERARY GIANT: Bolaño is one of our most brilliant and influential contemporary writers, the author of 2666, BY NIGHT IN CHILE, and THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES, a novelist who reconceived modern fiction.NATASHA WIMMER, BACK AGAIN: Natasha Wimmer, one of the most gifted translators working today, reunites with Bolaño on this book after her celebrated translations of 2666 and The Savage Detectives.