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The Skating Rink

"Brought to you by Penguin. Dropped from the Olympic figure skating team, Nuria Martí’s fate pivots her into a world of corruption, jealousy – and revenge. Cushioning her fall from grace, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old masion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn’t tell her is he paid for it using public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene. Narrated by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous civil servant, The Skating Rink is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS 'A work of intense and unrealized longing' The New York Times ‘Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world’ Guardian © Roberto Bolaño 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Roberto Bolaño (Author), David Crommett, Emilio Delgado, Tony Chiroldes (Narrator)

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Last Evenings On Earth

"Brought to you by Penguin. ‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...’ A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda. ‘The melancholy folklore of exile,’ as Roberto Bolaño once put it, pervades the fourteen haunting stories of Last Evenings on Earth. Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved ‘failed generation,’ this collection was the first to introduce the English-speaking world to Bolaño’s immeasurable gifts as a short-story writer. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS ‘May be the most haunting and mesmerising collection I have ever read’ Daily Telegraph ‘It is a shame that Bolaño has no more evenings on earth, his unique voice asserting the importance and exuberance of literature will be sorely missed’ Guardian © Roberto Bolaño 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Roberto Bolaño (Author), David Crommett (Narrator)

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The Insufferable Gaucho

"Brought to you by Penguin. ‘If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear...’ A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable return to the family farm in the Pampas. An elusive film-maker and the little-known Argentinian novelist whose work he's plagiarized for years, finally fall into confrontation. Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled and yet somehow haywire, the five short stories included in The Insufferable Gaucho are some of Roberto Bolaño's best. In addition, two essays are included: provocative and often scathing, they too are alive with Bolaño's trademark humour, violence and utter faith in the power of the written word. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS ‘An exemplary literary rebel’ New York Review of Books ‘A master of the short form’ Independent ‘Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own’ New York Times © Roberto Bolaño 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Roberto Bolaño (Author), David Crommett (Narrator)

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Antwerp

"Brought to you by Penguin. Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing. A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world – but every door opens onto a nightmare. An experimental novella, spliced together in vignettes, Antwerp is Roberto Bolaño’s first work of fiction. A personal declaration of the power of literature, to read it is to be present at ‘the big bang’ of Bolaño’s enterprise into prose, to see the beginning, to witness the moment when his talent explodes. TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER 'A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolaño fan’s bookshelf' Daily Telegraph ‘Bolaño set a new speed limit for literature. He simply wrote past other authors... His books are volcanic, perilous, charged with infectious erotic energy and demonic lucidity’ Benjamín Labatut, author of The Maniac © Roberto Bolaño 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Roberto Bolaño (Author), David Crommett (Narrator)

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