Chasing Bolaño’s Ghost

Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, met Carolina Lopez in Girona in 1980, and they married in 1985. They moved to Blanes that same year with the intention of opening a costume jewelry shop in the heart of the city. The couple had a child in 1990 and the following year he learned he had a terminal liver disease from which he succumbed in 2003. The legend goes that beginning around the time of the birth of his first child and the diagnosis of his disease, he wrote a book a year, including the masterpieces Los Detectives Salvajes (The Savage Detectives) and 2666.