NMLP P-027970 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Last Evenings on Earth

Roberto Bolaño · New Directions · 2006

The New Directions hardcover is the priority issue and the first English-language collection of Bolaño's short fiction, gathering fourteen stories drawn from the Spanish collections Llamadas telefónicas (1997) and Putas asesinas (2001). It was Bolaño's first US hardcover, and the hardcover precedes the paperback issue.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-027970 for "Last Evenings on Earth" by Roberto Bolaño (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-027970, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).