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The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft – review

Lost writers are at the heart of two novels that recall the late Roberto Bolaño in their language, wit, profundity and literary quests

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2024

Knausgaard's ambitious new novel imagines Europe's last decades – ending with an ominous star and the return of the dead

The Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard is a 21st-century literary phenomenon. Talked up as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been compared to some of the greatest writers of all time: Fyodor Dostovesky, Marcel Proust, Roberto Bolaño. His work challenges conventional assumptions about content and form,…

The Conversation · Dec 19, 2023

History Keeps Me Awake at Night by Christy Edwall review – Roberto Bolaño-inspired debut

A woman tries to solve the mystery of a deadly mass abduction in Mexico in this intelligent tale about displacement

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2023