The Third Reich

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Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Translation of : Tercer Reich.
"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; when Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon, he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real. Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own--and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666"-- Provided by publisher.
"A comedic novel from the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666"-- Provided by publisher.

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More straight forward than many of his books submitted by SaraP on July 20, 2022, 12:15pm Although this book doesn't delve into the broader universe of Bolaño's other works, it might be a nice place to start with him in that it's pretty linear and clear. At the same time, readers still get a taste of his style and fascination with the past as the protagonist is constantly playing a strategy based board game about WWII while spending his summer on the Spanish coast and exchanging letters and strategies with another aficionado of the game.