Antwerp

"Legendary . . . Bolaño has proven [that literature] can do anything." -Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review

"A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores." -Giles Harvey, The New Yorker

Often called the "big bang" of Roberto Bolaño's universe, Antwerp is his first novel-or the shattered remnants of one. Written when he was just twenty-seven years old, it was so intensely strange and solitary that he tucked it away for more than twenty years, certain that a...