The Third Reich

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice<BR><BR>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 his summers as a child. There, they meet another vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker side of the resort town's life. Soon Udo is enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, with a shadowy local called El Quemado. As the game draws to its conclusion, Udo discovers that the outcome may be all too real.<BR><BR>Written in 1989, The Third Reich is Roberto Bolaño's stunning exploration of memory and violence-and a rare glimpse at a world-class writer coming into his own.