The Third Reich: A Novel

Bolaño, Roberto

ISBN 10: 1427214220 / ISBN 13: 9781427214225

Published by Macmillan Audio, 2011

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Title: The Third Reich: A Novel

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: audioCD

Condition: Very Good

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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.

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)