Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.

A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, this is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece which brought Bolaño fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

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'The best and weirdest kind of literary game... A strangely profound place to get lost’ Financial Times

‘A darkly comic celebration of the wilder horizons of writing, good, plodding, lunatic and terrible’ London Review of Books

"The triumphant posthumous entrance of Roberto Bolaño into the English-language literary firmament has been one of the sensations of the decade." - Sunday Times

"An artful alternate history of modern literature" - Financial Times

"Bolaño's impressive novel triumphs" - Observer

"An extraordinary fantasia" - Independent