Bolaos radical first novel makes its paperback debut as a New Directions Pearl.

Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaos fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolaos enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboardwhich Bolao chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after hed written it (and even that I cant be certain of)as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.

Voices speak from a dream, from a nightmare, from passersby, from an omniscient narrator, from Roberto Bolao. Antwerps fractured narration in fifty-four sections moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.