Last Evenings on Earth Author:Roberto Bolano "The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades the fourteen haunting stories of Last Evenings on Earth. Bolan's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and often unlucky) quests. Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by his beloved "failed generation" these gripping... more » stories showcase Bolano's "sheer brilliance" (The San Francisco Chronicle). Chilean writers have depicted as an illness a condition of numbing, if not quite smiling, acquiescence,"Richard Eder said in The New York Times, "None has done it in so dark a glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano.« less