{"product_id":"last-evenings-on-earth-paperback","title":"Last Evenings on Earth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberto Bolaño\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChris Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The melancholy folklore of exile,\" as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes, as in a nightmare, in constant flight from something horrid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the short story \"Silva the Eye,\" Bolano writes in the opening sentence: \"It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always tried to escape violence, even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around 20 years old when Salvador Allende died.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved \"failed generation,\" the stories of \u003cem\u003eLast Evenings on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGrand Street\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.98 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757714833696,"sku":"9780811216883","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/21eaad63d19176db2c4a93c1014db27e.webp?v=1780109812","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/last-evenings-on-earth-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}