Mörderische Huren

Roberto Bolaño changed literature and tells us about a world that has gone awry.

Melancholic porn stars, deranged poets, mystical dentists, and soccer players with a penchant for the supernatural – in thirteen irresistibly funny, profound stories, Roberto Bolaño traces the life paths of people who are on the run: from poverty and violence, but above all from themselves. Bolaño's characters carry the marks of their disturbance with them. Yet without disturbance, nothing human would exist, for "the world is alive and nothing alive has a solution, and that is our happiness."

"Thirteen stories are gathered in this volume. They come with an urgency as if they must be told."

Thomas Steinfeld, Süddeutsche Zeitung.