* Pen-name of the critic Hernán Díaz Arrieta (1891–1984)
Copyright © 1996 by Roberto Bolaño and Editorial Anagrama
Translation copyright © 2004 by Chris Andrews
All rights reserved. Except for a brief passage quoted in a newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or website review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher.
Published by arrangement with the Harvill Press, Random House UK, London.
This edition has been translated with the financial assistance of the Spanish Dirección
General del Libro y Bibliotecas, Ministerio de Cultura.
Originally published by Editorial Anagrama as Estrella distante in 1996.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP993) in 2004.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003
[Estrella distante. English]
Distant star / Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
p. cm.
“A New Directions book.”
eISBN 978-0-8112-2052-1
I. Andrews, Chris. II. Title.
PQ8098.12.O38E813 2004
863’.64--dc22
2004019033
New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin
by New Directions Publishing Corporation,
80 Eighth Avenue, New York 10011
10 9 8 7 6 5
by Roberto Bolano
Available from New Directions
AMULET
ANTWERP
BETWEEN PARENTHESES
BY NIGHT IN CHILE
DISTANT STAR
THE INSUFFERABLE GAUCHO
LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH
MONSIEUR PAIN
NAZI LITERATURE IN THE AMERICAS
THE RETURN
THE ROMANTIC DOGS
THE SECRET OF EVIL
THE SKATING RINK
TRES
Roberto Bolaño, Distant Star
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