{"product_id":"9781250321749","title":"By Night in Chile","description":"\u003cp\u003eA deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia.\u003cbr\u003eAs through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile'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, By Night in Chile marks the American debut of an astonishing writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917951353072,"sku":"9781250321749","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250321749_p0.jpg?v=1763703622","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250321749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}