{"product_id":"by-night-in-chile","title":"By Night in Chile","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño's] greatest work.\" --James Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A marvelous river of feeling, a brilliant meditation, an enthralling fantasy--\u003ci\u003eBy Night in Chile\u003c\/i\u003e is the real thing, and the rarest: a contemporary novel destined to have a permanent place in world literature.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Susan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, \u003ci\u003eBy Night in Chile\u003c\/i\u003e is the final testimony of Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix--Chilean priest and member of Opus Dei, eminent literary critic and failed poet--as he is haunted by a shadowy figure from his past. In Urrutia's feverish last hours, a deluge of memories pours from him: of hobnobbing with Santiago's most unctuous literati; of undertaking a mission to save Europe's decaying cathedrals from existential threat by pigeon excrement; of retreating into Greco-Roman poetry during the darkest chapter of modern Chilean history; of tutoring Augusto Pinochet in Marxist theory, so that the General may better understand his enemies. Throughout he insists, with fracturing conviction, that he was always on the right side of history. A novel about high art and fascism, silence and complicity, and, ultimately, the weight of damnation, Roberto Bolaño's \u003ci\u003eBy Night in Chile\u003c\/i\u003e is a deep-cutting satire and a work of devastating moral insight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new introduction by Nicole Krauss.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Roberto Bolaño","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103126122797,"sku":"BS-8XD-321749","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/9781250321749-HD.jpg?v=1780256510","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/by-night-in-chile","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}