
Distant Star
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Narrated by:
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Walter Krochmal
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By:
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Roberto Bolano
A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
The star of Roberto Bolano'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.
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 stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.")
Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in The New York Times: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."
©1996 Roberto Bolano and Editorial Anagrama, Translation copyright 2004 by Chris Andrews (P)2013 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Probably better on paper.
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
This book is a rough read, unless you're into poetry don't read itWhat was one of the most memorable moments of Distant Star?
All the evilWhat about Walter Krochmal’s performance did you like?
He got the voices correct and the translation was good, I preferred this to the Spanish version.Could you see Distant Star being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
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Like poetry before you read this!! And know the poets of Russian history!! WW1!!Omg
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Bolaño writes for a Chilean audience and maybe only an audience of Chilean poets. In any case, his work is not aimed at me and that’s fine but Distant Star is my last Bolaño book. No mas!
Very long account of a very short story.
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It was one of the few books I could not finish.
This caused me to avoid Bolano until I got a recent recommendation for Distant Star.
The publisher’s blurb starts “A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.” Although this may be latterly true, this is ironic and darkly funny. There is a lot of humor based on the history of socialism and poetry (which is clearly not for everyone).
I found this uplifting and enjoyable.
I have added more Bolano to my reading list.
The narration was excellent matching the writing well.
Brilliantly dark and deeply funny
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