By Night in Chile

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By Night in Chile (Spanish: Nocturno de Chile) is a novella by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, first published in 2000. It was the first of Bolaño's novels to be published in English, with Chris Andrews's English translation, which appeared in 2003 under New Directions. Originally titled Storms of Shit (Spanish: Tormentas de mierda), friend Juan Villoro and Jorje Herralde, his editor, convinced him to change it. In the author's own words he says "By night in Chile is a metaphor of a hellish country, among other things. It's also a metaphor of a young country, a country that doesn't know whether its a country or a countryside."

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