**Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolaño. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: a trove of strangely arresting, short master works.** As Pankaj Mishra remarked in *The Nation*, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolaño's short stories is that they can do the 'work of a novel.' *The Return* contains thirteen unforgettable stories bent on returning to haunt you. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and daring, a Bolaño story might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend or a dream of meeting Enrique Lihn: his plots go anywhere and everywhere and they always surprise. Consider the title piece: a young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor; just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange doings are afoot - and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolaño's own).
Although a few have been serialized in *The New Yorker* and *Playboy*, most of the stories of *The Return* have never before appeared in English, and to Bolaño's many readers will be like catnip to the cats. .
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**Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolaño. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: a trove of strangely arresting, short master works.** As Pankaj Mishra remarked in *The Nation*, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolaño's short stories is that they can do the 'work of a novel.' *The Return* contains thirteen unforgettable stories bent on returning to haunt you. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and daring, a Bolaño story might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend or a dream of meeting Enrique Lihn: his plots go anywhere and everywhere and they always surprise. Consider the title piece: a young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor; just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange doings are afoot - and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolaño's own). Although a few have been serialized in *The New Yorker* and *Playboy*, most of the stories of *The Return* have never before appeared in English, and to Bolaño's many readers will be like catnip to the cats. .