By Night in Chile

"As for Bolaño, what can one say? One of our greatest writers, a straight colossus. Is there really anything in print even remotely approaching “By Night in Chile”? ... “By Night in Chile” is a master class in which Bolaño manages to distill the perverse brutal phantasmagorical history of an entire continent down to 150 seductive pages."

"“The Savage Detectives” and “By Night in Chile” double-handedly yanked me out of a depression several years back"