The Return
The Return by Roberto Bolaño, published by Picador on September 3, 2024, is a collection of thirteen stories that delve into the themes of loss and memory. Written in English and spanning 208 pages, this edition presents Bolaño’s exploration of troubled souls and the ghosts that linger at the edges of society. The narratives reflect on the extremes of human experience, intertwining elements of sex, violence, and death with a unique blend of humor and insight.
Readers will find that these stories focus on the complexities of identity and the act of storytelling itself. Bolaño examines how tales resonate and evolve, revealing the connections between the past and present. The collection offers a literary journey through the lives of characters who grapple with their realities, making it a thought-provoking addition to the genres of literature and fiction, as well as short stories and anthologies.
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“Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . There is gold to be found in [The Return].” —Michael Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review
Composed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto Bolaño’s The Return is preoccupied with ghosts: troubled souls haunting society’s margins, lovers lost to the ages, young men who no longer recognize themselves in the mirror, fresh corpses afforded no peace, departed poets who visit us in dreams. These tales capture the extremes of human experience—sex, violence, death—and the mundane acts that linger in between, with Bolaño’s inimitable mordant humor and trenchant insight into what drives us. A master of the short form, Bolaño is as interested in the act of storytelling as he is in the stories themselves: how they nestle within one another; how they shift, spread, and scatter; and how they return to us again and again.
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