Woes of the True Policeman Roberto Bolano

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Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano

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Summary

Taking us back to the world and characters of his acclaimed masterpiece, 2666, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished, novel.

Woes of the True Policeman Summary

Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano

Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor Oscar Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa - a Mexican city close to the US border. In this sprawling town, where women are being killed in staggering numbers, Amalfitano begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintings, while his daughter, Rosa, reeling from the weight of his secrets, seeks solace in a romance of her own.

Featuring characters and stories from The Savage Detectives and 2666, Roberto Bolano's Woes of the True Policeman explores the power of art, memory, and desire - and marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature.

Woes of the True Policeman Reviews

'Hallucinatory, manic, fearful, comic . . . Bolano must be read by anyone who loves the novel' Herald
'There is a power in these pages that very few writers ever achieve' Scotsman
'A further demonstration of Bolano's profound capacity to inhabit a seemingly limitless variety of perspectives with humor and empathy . . . an event of language and devilish wit' Wall Street Journal

About Roberto Bolano

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives won the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize and Natasha Wimmer's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Described by the New York Times as the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation, in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666.

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GOR005670331

ISBN 13

9781447233305

ISBN 10

1447233301

Title

Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano

Author

Roberto Bolano

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year published

20140116

Number of pages

272

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