{"product_id":"antwerp-roberto-bolao-9780811217170","title":"Antwerp","description":"As Bolano's friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarr僘, once suggested, \u003cem\u003eAntwerp\u003c\/em\u003e can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano's fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolano's enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard--which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he'd written it (\"and even that I can't be certain of\")--as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Antwerp's fractured narration in 54 sections--voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from \"Roberto Bolano\" all speak--moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberto Bola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811217175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811217170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.12h x 4.80w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2010 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/19\/2010 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/13\/2011 pg. 33","brand":"Roberto Bola","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992473829631,"sku":"9780811217170","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5a7f55c-725e-4bc4-a2ac-4ef72a4c39c0.jpg?v=1683319140","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/antwerp-roberto-bolao-9780811217170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}