Books by Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer

1. Fiction : I’ve already covered Roberto Bolaño plenty on MR; The Savage Detectives is his masterpiece but it’s all worth reading.  The massive 2666 is due out later this year.  José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night , while hardly read in the U.S., seems to me one of the most gripping novels of the 20th century.  If you read the Amazon reviews you’ll that others who have read it agree.  This is one of the least read first-rate novels I know.  It’s not easy going, however, and it’s taking me a...

This book is academic substance, beginning to end, and for that reason it won’t be a fun read to everybody.  But with that caveat, and noting the $60.00 purchase price, it joins my list ( Sacred Games , The Savage Detectives , Prophet of Innovation ) of must-reads for the year.