The Secret of Evil
“Bolaño crafts characters isolated from their surroundings and compellingly observing the humanity around them. Bolaño's writing is reliably intriguing.” (Publishers Weekly)“One of those rare writers who write for a future time. We have only begun to appreciate his strange, oblique genius.” (John Banville)“It's a glimpse into the process of a totemic artistic figure.” (The A.V. Club)“Paragraphs demand to be reread, because they give you the feeling that you’ve missed something. You did miss something, but you won’t find it in the printed words. It’s the space around the words where you’ll find the answer.” (The Coffin Factory)“Bolaño succeeds in conjuring the unknowable empty spaces that an obsessive mind can imagine into the private lives of others.” (The Rumpus)“Each of the tales boast an aspect of Bolaño’s prodigious talent: his ability to leap into a character’s skin, quickly, with compelling confidence; or his facility for making sinister personalities and surreally uncomfortable situations feel all too plausible.” (Time Out New York)