Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño
Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
New Directions, 2006
Few writers translated into English in the past several years have generated as much excitement as Roberto Bolaño. Bolaño, who died in 2003, is one of the most popular literary authors in the Spanish-speaking world. Thus far two of his novels have been published in the United States. Two more are due out this spring, including a purported masterpiece,
The Savage Detectives. Fitted between these pairs is
Last Evenings on Earth, a minor yet compelling book of short stories compiled from two collections published in Spanish.