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Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Distant Star about?
The star of Roberto Bolaño's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.<br> <br> <br> <br> For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to sto
Who reads Distant Star?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Roberto Bolaño
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780811215862
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (3,502 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Las bailarinas muertas (Narrativas hispánicas) (1997)
- Distant Star: Roberto Bolano (Vintage Editions) (2020)
- Distant Star (New Directions Paperbook) (2004)
- Distant Star (2009)
- Estrella Distante (Narrativas hispánicas) (2009)
- Estrella Distante (Narrativas hispánicas) (1999)
- Distant Star (2014)
- Estrella distante (Contemporánea) (1999)
- Estrella Distante (Narrativas hispánicas) (1996)
- Distant Star (1996)
- Las bailarinas muertas (Narrativas hispánicas) (2003)
- Estrella distante (Compactos) (2000)
- Las bailarinas muertas (Narrativas hispánicas) (1996)
- Estrella distante (2009)
- Estrella distante (Vintage Espanol) (2010)
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