LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH PB – ROBERTO BOLANO-CHRIS ANDREWS

p b ‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature…’ /b br / br / A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protege in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda. br / br / ‘The melancholy folklore of exile,’ as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades the fourteen haunting stories of i Last Evenings on Earth /i . Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano s beloved ‘failed generation,’ this collection was the first to introduce the English-speaking world to Bolano’s immeasurable gifts as a short-story writer. br / br / TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS br / br / b ‘May be the most haunting and mesmerising collection I have ever read’ i Daily Telegraph /i /b br / br / b ‘It is a shame that Bolano has no more evenings on earth, his unique voice asserting the importance and exuberance of literature will be sorely missed’ i Guardian /i /b /p