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Bumping again.Goodreads librarians: if you are unable to correct the issues with #2-3, #8-9, and #12 due to the disastrous new policy surrounding Kindle and Audible editions, please let me know so that I can contact staff to inform them that they have to carry out Kindle/Audible edits and inform them of the errors that need to be fixed.
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1. US Paperback: Distant Star (ISBN 9780811215862)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the front flap:
The “star” of Roberto Bolaño’s hair-raising Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry: a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.
Our unnamed narrator first encounters him in a college poetry workshop (where Ruiz-Tagle only has eyes for the beautiful Garmendia twins, Veronica and Angelica: unfortunately for them).
The next sighting comes as the narrator stands in a prison camp for political undesirables, gazing up at a WWII Messerschmitt sky-writing over the Andes. The aviator is none other than Ruiz-Tagle, now serving in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. Behind any evil act in the darkness of Pinochet’s regime, our narrator, more and more obsessed, suspects Wieder’s silent hand.
Within Bolaño’s darkest visions a corrosive, mocking humor sparkles. And while many Chilean authors have written about the “bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders,” Richard Eder commented in The New York Times (reviewing By Night in Chile): “None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolaño.”
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2. US Audible: Distant Star (ASIN B00CRJG8QM)
- Walter Krochmal needs to be added with the Narrator role.
- Chris Andrews needs to be added with the Translator role. Please make sure it’s the right Chris Andrews: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
- The page count is missing. It should be 5.
- The format is incorrect. It should be Audible.
- The cover art is incorrect. Available here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://a.co/d/cbTtPZH
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3. CA Audible: Distant Star (ASIN B071427FZ4)
- The wrong Chris Andrews is listed as Translator. It needs to be this one: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
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4. First UK Paperback: Distant Star (ISBN 9781843430940)
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be The Harvill Press.
- Chris Andrews needs to be added with the Translator role. Please make sure it’s the right Chris Andrews: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
- The page count is incorrect. I’m holding a copy and it stops at 149.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
The narrator of this story first set eyes on Alberto Ruiz-Tagle in southern Chile in the early 1970s. Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet who had a reputation for seducing women and who generated mistrust among men. After the military coup of 1973 that ushered in the military dictatorship of General Pinochet, he embarked upon a new career that involved him in murder and other brutalities and led to his emergence as a lieutenant in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. The narrator vividly recalls the time when he himself was held in a prison camp and looked up to see a World War II Messerschmitt 109 tracing the first words of the Book of Genesis in smoke lettering in the blue sky above the Andes mountains. The aviator was none other than Carlos Wieder, launching his own version of the New Chilean Poetry…
Bolaño’s disturbing and highly original novel tells of the life and times of an enigmatic poet turned military assassin. It is a chilling investigation of the fascist mentality and the limits of evil, as seen in its effects on a literary sensibility, as well as a gripping intellectual thriller. It is also one of the most important novels by a man who, despite his untimely death in 2003, is widely regarded as the most important Latin American writer of his generation.
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5. Second UK Paperback: Distant Star (ISBN 9780099461722)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and works of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet’s regime in Chile. In the early 1970s Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was a little-known poet living in southern Chile. After the military coup of 1973 he embarked upon a new career that involved him in committing murder and other brutalities, and subsequently led to his emergence as a lieutenant in the Chilean air force under his actual name, Carlos Wieder. Some time later the narrator, now held in a prison camp, looks up and sees a World War II airplane writing the first words of the Book of Genesis in smoke in the sky. The aviator is none other than Carlos Wieder, launching his own version of the New Chilean Poetry…
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6. Third UK Paperback: Distant Star (ISBN 9781784876395)
- Chris Andrews needs to be added with the Translator role. Please make sure it’s the right Chris Andrews: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
- 01 needs to be removed from the Editions field. This isn’t the first edition.
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7. Fourth UK Paperback: Distant Star (ISBN 9781784879457)
- Chris Andrews needs to be added with the Translator role. Please make sure it’s the right Chris Andrews: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile’s young poetry scene.
But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile’s leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider’s dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. Where did this talent suddenly spring from? And, how is it connected to the disappearance of the beautiful Garmendia twins?
Told from across the years in exile in Europe, the narrator’s attempts to trace the fate of his old circle will lead him to one last confrontation with the brutality of their generation.
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8. First UK Kindle: Distant Star (ASIN B00LIUMGS0)
- Chris Andrews needs to be added with the Translator role. Please make sure it’s the right Chris Andrews: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
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9. Second UK Kindle: Distant Star (ASIN B0CYL4QB8Q)
- Chris Andrews needs to be added with the Translator role. Please make sure it’s the right Chris Andrews: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
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10. First UK Ebook: Distant Star (ISBN 9781446442456)
- The format is incorrect. It should be Ebook.
- The page count is missing. It should be 176.
- Chris Andrews needs to be added with the Translator role. Please make sure it’s the right Chris Andrews: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
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11. Second UK Ebook: Distant Star (ISBN 9781529924442)
- The wrong Chris Andrews is listed as Translator. It needs to be this one: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
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12. Missing Edition: UK Audible
TITLE: Distant Star
AUTHOR: Roberto Bolaño
NARRATOR: Walter Krochmal
TRANSLATOR: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
ASIN: B00CRJ719K
PUBLISHER: Audible Studios
DATE PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
NUMBER OF PAGES: 5
FORMAT: Audible
DESCRIPTION:
A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.
The star of Roberto Bolaño’s hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.
For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this “star” in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet’s regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolaño’s darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolaño’s world there’s a big graveyard and there’s a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as “a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.”)
Many Chilean authors have written about the “bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders,” Richard Eder commented in The New York Times: “None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolaño.”
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://amzn.eu/d/djW0lD0