Antwerp\'s signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao.
Antwerp \'s fractured narration in fifty-four sections moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone..
Voices speak from a dream, from a nightmare, from passersby, from an omniscient narrator, from Roberto Bolano.
From this springboard--which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he\'d written it (and even that I can\'t be certain of)--as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.
This novel presents the genesis of Bolano\'s enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes.
Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano\'s fictional universe.
A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.
Antwerp\'s signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao
