I’m becoming increasingly reluctant to bother with doorstep novels, and when Roberto Bolaño’s much-lauded 2666 was published in English a year or so ago – all nine hundred pages of it – I decided that I didn’t have the time or the will to read it. Still, I was curious to see what kind of a writer lay behind the hype of 2666, and the recent UK publication of Nazi Literature in the Americas, one of Bolaño’s earlier, shorter works, has given me the chance. (Keep reading …)

The start of this year saw the publication of the UK edition of Roberto Bolaño’s Nazi Literature in the Americas, and The Fiction Desk is giving away a free copy in a competition in this month’s email newsletter.

A (fictional) survey of right-wing authors of the last hundred years – and some time into the future – Nazi Literature in the Americas is an unusual and entertaining read from the author of the massively successful 2666. Picador have put together a lovely hardback edition for the UK publication (see left).

Look out for a full review here on The Fiction Desk later this week. In the meantime, if you’d like a chance to win, just sign up for the monthly newsletter before Friday. You can do this in the box on the left of this post.

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