By Night in Chile - Chris Andrews

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the `wizened youth' who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS`The wit, the horror, the ambition, the strangeness; Roberto Bola�o's work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever' Chris Power`Few are the writers who have mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bola�o is among the best at this diabolical skill' Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter