{"product_id":"by-night-in-chile","title":"By Night in Chile","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBy Night in Chile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e As through a crack in the wall, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBy Night in Chile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel―Roberto Bolano's first work available in English―recounts the tale of a poor boy who wanted to be a poet, but ends up a half-hearted Jesuit priest and a conservative literary critic, a sort of lap dog to the rich and powerful cultural elite, in whose villas he encounters Pablo Neruda and Ernst Junger. Father Urrutia is offered a tour of Europe by agents of Opus Dei (to study \"the disintegration of the churches,\" a journey into realms of the surreal); and ensnared by this plum, he is next assigned―after the destruction of Allende―the secret, never-to-be-disclosed job of teaching Pinochet, at night, all about Marxism, so the junta generals can know their enemy. Soon, searingly, his memories go from bad to worse. Heart-stopping and hypnotic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBy Night in Chile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e marks the American debut of an astonishing writer.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120069153053,"sku":"9781250321749","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781250321749.jpg?v=1751398048","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/by-night-in-chile","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}