Cowboy Graves

<p><b>Three fiercely original tales. An unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.</b><br><br>Roberto Bolaño''s boundless gift for shaping the chaos of reality into fiction is unmistakable across these three novellas. In ‘Cowboy Graves,’ Arturo Belano – Bolaño''s alter ego – returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. ‘French Comedy of Horrors’ finds a seventeen-year-old recruited into a secret society of artists in the sewers of Paris. And in ‘Fatherland,’ a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence.<br><br>TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER<br><br><b>‘His work is as vital, thrilling and life-enhancing as anything in modern fiction’ <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>‘Fascinating... A rare opportunity for the reader to witness the creation of a seemingly inexhaustible body of work’ <i>El Pais</i></b></p>