{"product_id":"antwerp-9780811217170","title":"Antwerp","description":"As Bolano's friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, \u003cem\u003eAntwerp\u003c\/em\u003e can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano's fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolano's enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard--which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he'd written it (\"and even that I can't be certain of\")--as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Antwerp's fractured narration in 54 sections--voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from \"Roberto Bolano\" all speak--moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811217170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.12h x 4.80w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2010 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/19\/2010 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/13\/2011 pg. 33\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Roberto Bola\u0026#241;o","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924927811765,"sku":"9780811217170","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fafb9ab7-2c7d-409e-9ee4-f9366be69eaa.jpg?v=1687841549","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/antwerp-9780811217170","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}