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The Third Reich

The Third Reich

Roberto Bolano

9780330510547

Picador


Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Hardback

288 pages

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Shortly after becoming the German war-games champion, Udo Berger and his girlfriend, Ingeborg, holiday on the Costa Brava. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals who introduce them to the darker side of life in the town. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval ...Frightened, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home, and his increasingly feverish dreams push him into delirium. As everything slips beyond his grasp, he attempts to re-assert himself by engaging the enigmatic and severely disfigured El Quemado -- a foreigner who lives in a Spartan burrow on the beach -- in a days-long match of his favourite war game, Third Reich. But, too late to stop the madness, he realizes that the consequences of this game are much more serious than he ever imagined. Combining the exhilaration of The Savage Detectives with the darkness of his later work, The Third Reich -- Bolano's first new novel since the epic 2666 -- is a visceral book exploring memory, madness and violence. It is both the perfect way to discover the dazzling genius of Roberto Bolano and an unmissable addition to the oeuvre for those who already have.

By:   Roberto Bolano
Imprint:   Picador
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 234mm,  Spine: 153mm
ISBN:  

9780330510547


ISBN 10:   0330510541
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   February 2012
Recommended Age:   16
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.


'Bolano writes with such elegance, verve and style and is immensely readable' Guardian 'Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano' Sunday Times

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