One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño an essential voice of contemporary Latin
American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary
talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the
chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In Cowboy Graves
Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades
for socialism. French Comedy of Horrors takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an
eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the
Clandestine Surrealist Group a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in
Fatherland a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country as the woman he is
obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously
writes her poetry in the sky overhead. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures
of Bolaño's extraordinary body of work echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of
his triumphs while deepening our reverence for his gifts.
