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Sat 11 Nov 2009Considering all she knew
FICTION:AmuletBy Roberto Bolano, translated by Chris Andrews Picador, 184pp. £14.99
BEHIND EVERY great big book, there is often a great little book. Just as Günter Grass followed The Tin Drum(1959) with a brilliant short novel, Cat and Mouse(1961), so too does the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolano, have wonderful short novels to stand alongside leviathans such as The Savage Detectives(1998) and 2666 (2004) – both of which have appeared in recent years in well publicised English-language editions. That he was a writer in a hurry is all too tragically evident. He died in 2003 at the age of 50, and since the publication the following year of The Savage Detectiveshas been internationally acclaimed.
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