{"product_id":"antwerp-hardcover","title":"Antwerp - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberto Bolaño\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNatasha Wimmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Bolano's friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, \u003cem\u003eAntwerp\u003c\/em\u003e can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano's fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolano's enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard--which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he'd written it (\"and even that I can't be certain of\")--as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Antwerp's fractured narration in 54 sections--voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from \"Roberto Bolano\" all speak--moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 7.12 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 27, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757714669856,"sku":"9780811217170","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/522e498dd028418cc3d4a7a90b2649c8.webp?v=1780109807","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/antwerp-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}