The Third Reich

Bolano, Roberto

ISBN 10: 1427214220 ISBN 13: 9781427214225

Publisher: Macmillan Audio, 2011

Synopsis

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in a resort town.

Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo’s well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; while Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, Udo’s favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game’s consequences may be all too real.

Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño’s papers after his death, The ThirdReich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own—and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpiecesThe Savage Detectives and 2666.

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Review

‘A mesmerizing tale: sleek, linear, easily digested’ Washington Post

Capering, weird, rascally and short . . . The Third Reich is giddily funny, but it is also prickly and bizarre enough to count among Bolaño’s first-rate efforts. (The Economist)

Book Description

Games become reality in Roberto Bolaño's The Third Reich, an atmospheric and sinister mystery set on the Spanish coast.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1427214220
• ISBN 13: 9781427214225
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English