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Unpublished during Bolaño's lifetime, the complete typescript of this novel - meticulously corrected by hand - was discovered after his death in 2003. This is the first English language publication. Shortly after becoming the German war-games champion, Udo Berger and his girlfriend, Ingeborg, holiday on the Costa Brava. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals who introduce them to the darker side of life in the town. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval . . . Frightened, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home, and his increasingly feverish dreams push him into delirium. As everything slips beyond his grasp, he attempts to re-assert himself by engaging the enigmatic and severely disfigured El Quemado - a foreigner who lives in a Spartan burrow on the beach - in a days-long match of his favourite war game, Third Reich. But, too late to stop the madness, he realizes that the consequences of this game are much more serious than he ever imagined. Combining the exhilaration of The Savage Detectives with the darkness of his later work, The Third R

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Author

Bolaño, Roberto

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330510547

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (101 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14