The Return

‘Dark, intimate and sneakily touching … there is gold to be found in this collection’ * New York Review of Books *
Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts. * Observer *
The sense of embattlement that animates the writing, and the scab-picking intensity that he brings to his obsessions, makes The Return a compelling encapsulation of Bolaño’s work … you won’t be bored. * Los Angeles Times *

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.

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