'Lucid, insane, deadly serious, wildly playful, biblomaniacal, and perversely
imaginative' Nicole Krauss
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of
a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky
writing, Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of
characters from one of the most extraordinarily fecund imaginations in world
literature. Written with acerbic wit and virtuosic flair, this
encyclopaediccavlacade of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly
humorous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolaño famous
throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
‘One of the most exhilarating, intense and dangerous voices to