The Third Reich

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Third Reich
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Roberto Bolano
Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780330510554
ClassificationsDewey:863.64
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 30 August 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

War-games champion Udo Berger and his girlfriend Ingeborg are on holiday. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals. They have fun, see the sights, relax. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace. Desperate to solve the mystery, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home. Increasingly frightened, the situation slips beyond his grasp and he suddenly realizes that the consequences of this "game" are much more serious than he ever imagined.

Author Biography

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

Reviews

'A mesmerizing tale: sleek, linear, easily digested' Washington Post Capering, weird, rascally and short . . . The Third Reich is giddily funny, but it is also prickly and bizarre enough to count among Bolano's first-rate efforts. * The Economist *