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Roberto Bolaño redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet, he reimagines what literature can become. * New Statesman * A curtain-raising taster to the epic of his landmark works. * Independent * His work is the crossroads where Márquez meets Burroughs and Borges meets Mailer, resulting in a riotous dust-up. * Guardian * Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history . . . spare but beautifully compacted. * The Times * A short, original, engaged and engaging novel; a good introduction to the longer works of this writer. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.

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