'Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano' - Sunday Times 'Bolano writes with such elegance, verve and style and is immensely readable' - Guardian 'His fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental' - Times Literary Supplement

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His novel, The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.