Cowboy Graves

Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas (Spanish: Sepulcros de vaqueros) is a collection of three short works by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.

It is accompanied by an afterword by Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas as well as a note on the text by Bolaño's widow, Carolina López Hernández.

On the ship to Valparaiso Arturo befriends a cabaret star, Dora Montes, who is travelling with her sister and whom he also finds in bed with his cabinmate, Johnny Paredes.

He also describes an unfinished sci-fi story to a Spanish Jesuit and overhears two men in the adjoining room discuss a murder that one had committed.

The cell's leader, Pancho, orders the group to guard the streets and respond back with a set of responses to his password, which Arturo forgets.

When Pancho later approaches him to gain information, Arturo is unable to give the required response and instead tells him directly that there has been no movement on the street for hours.

In Port Hope, French Guiana, a group of friends of Roger Bolamba, a former athlete and now local literary figure, gathers at the House of the Sun during a solar eclipse.

Parting ways with the group at the end of the evening, the narrator, seventeen-year-old Diodorus Pilon, takes a shortcut home to the Coves.

Then, the member tells the story of Andre Breton inviting five young surrealists to spend ten years in the sewers of Paris.