An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 that brought in the dict
Distant Star
✍ Scribed by Bolaño, Roberto; Andrews, Chris
- Publisher
- New Directions Pub
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0811220524
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
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