{"product_id":"last-evenings-on-earth","title":"Last Evenings on Earth","description":"The first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. \"The melancholy folklore of exile,\" as Roberto Bolaño 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.\n\nIn the short story \"Silva the Eye,\" Bolaño 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.\"\n\nSet in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolaño's beloved \"failed generation,\" the stories of Last Evenings on Earth have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0811216888\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0811216888.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bolaño, Roberto|Andrews, Chris\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41449416196154,"sku":"DBV.0811216888.A","price":12.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0811216888-0.jpg?v=1780888574","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/last-evenings-on-earth","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}