Roberto Bolaño - The Third Reich

The New York Times“Thoroughly, weirdly absorbing...” The inept, ordinary Udo will persistently reveal not only his ineptness and ordinariness but his jerky, irrational fears and suspicions...

Scotsman“A strange and unforgettable little book...” One can imagine why the author was less than satisfied. That said, a work with which Bolaño was dissatisfied is simply on a different plane to the smug, tepid scribbling that passes for literature in some circles...

Publishers Weekly“Infused with unease and menace...” Bolaño’s novel is a psychological thriller without a convincing payoff. Its atmosphere, however, clearly prefigures the preoccupations of the author’s later masterpieces...

Economist“Capering, weird, rascally and short...” Imagine a cross between Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice", the CLUE board game and a wargames fanzine. It's a scathing novel with a lot of exuberance to it, not unlike the man who wrote it...