{"product_id":"last-evenings-on-earth","title":"Last Evenings on Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinarily beautiful . . . [Like] a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Francine Prose, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda. \"The melancholy folklore of exile,\" as Roberto Bolaño once put it, pervades the fourteen haunting stories of \u003ci\u003eLast Evenings on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolaño's beloved \"failed generation,\" this collection was the first to introduce the English-speaking world to Bolaño's immeasurable gifts as a short-story writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":67934861492592,"sku":"9781250352255","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_3ca94ea5-e4c5-47f7-9155-a2ed0a883e8b.jpg?v=1792880919","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/last-evenings-on-earth","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}