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  • Literary Brilliance5

    Barry Kevin Newton What a most awesome literary experience this book is. Bolano is a true master-craftsman of the written word, his literary style in this book is literary eloquence juxtaposing magnificently with the subject lines.
    A most captivatingly grandiloquent description of the mundane, the mediocre, and the macabre, with some singularly outstanding sentences that carry through half to three-quarter pages remaining coherent, contextual, and clever.
    The "unfinished" portion ~ that part completed by his family ~ stands as stark testimony of Roberto Bolano's pure literary genius. by Barry Kevin Newton

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    Hefty but not heavy5

    Sholto Spradbury I have frequently heard this book described as a flawed or unfinished masterpiece, but if you didn't know the author died before he considered the project complete, it would hardly be obvious. In terms of coherence, it compares well with other recent novels of similarly wide scope and size - Infinite Jest, say or Against The Day.
    The narrative has two primary and intertwined concerns - the life and works of a reclusive novelist, and an epidemic of murdered females in a city on the US / Mexico border. 'The Part About The Crimes', a three-hundred-page account of these murders and their investigation, is relentless, clinical, hypnotic and altogether disturbing. I don't know how it compares for grisliness with popular psych-crime procedurals, but it is not for the faint-hearted.
    In the other parts, we follow a young man whose artistic temperament is formed through the German experience in WWII and after. an incestuous clique of academics trying to track down their literary hero, and a pair of misfits trapped by the endless alienating spaces in and around the border city.
    There are many mysteries, but little satisfaction for a reader looking for orderly resolution or deeper significance. However, I felt it a generous work - the prose is sometimes rich, sometimes spare, but never opaque and always allusive. It is learned and literary, but embraces the details of countless ordinary lives whilst guiding us on a rare and memorable journey. by Sholto Spradbury

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