Cowboy Graves

The Savage Detectives may have made Bolaño’s name, but his posthumous publications—from the galactic 2666 to the winsome Spirit of Science Fiction—have cemented his legend. He left behind a vault to rival Prince’s ‘Paisley Park’… . The effect of Cowboy Graves is less the piecing together of a puzzle than the recentering of a whole, mythic world. * The New York Times Book Review *
Companionable, exotic, witty and glamorously suggestive. * The Guardian *
“Bolaño readers can survey [Cowboy Graves] to glimpse into his artistic process, into the fountain of his creativity… . One of Bolaño’s great narrative skills is his ability to casually express the enigma of life, the lacuna between humanity’s capacity for comprehension and the world’s unknowable… . His writing is global and encyclopedic, curative and addictive, and vibrant and visceral. * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Cowboy Graves contains writing completed over a period of 10 years, and features many of the touchstones Bolaño was known for: semi-autobiographical narration; a humorous, fragmentary style; and the sort of intrigue that grabs hold of you and never lets go, despite offering no easy answers. * Chicago Review of Books *
Bolaño’s brilliant oeuvre expands with another bright starburst, this one comprising three separate yet thematically connected novellas…Bolaño’s inimitable style and searing vision will appeal to fans and new readers alike. * Booklist *
Each story reveals a centrifugal writer with a brilliant command of words and no fear of a plot’s getting away from him. * Kirkus Reviews *

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by The New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation,’ he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.

Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her recent translations include Nona Fernández’s Voyager and Álvaro Enrigue’s Sudden Death.

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