ROBERTO BOLANO'S Woes of the True Policeman

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ROBERTO BOLANO'S Woes of the True Policeman

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Picador; Open market edition (January 17, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1447234588
ISBN-13: 978-1447234586
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches

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Condition: New

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(synopsis)

When Oscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this relationship will change him for ever. Forced to flee with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Amalfitano finds himself in Santa Teresa, a sprawling town on the US-Mexico border. Haunted by dark tales of murdered women, this mythical place is populated by mysterious characters. We meet Castillo, who makes his living selling his forgeries of Larry Rivers paintings to wealthy Texans; Pancho Monje, a son born of six generations of foundlings; and Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work has been important to Amalfitano for some time, but whose return to prominence is just beginning.

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Editorial Review

From Booklist

Yet another posthumous, unfinished novel by literary giant Bolaño has surfaced, though it’s said this will be the last. While it is no Savage Detectives (1998; tr. 2007), 2666 (2004; tr. 2008), nor many others, Bolaño fans, and there are many, will have no trouble delving right in to once again devour the master linguist’s every word. The story, about a Chilean professor, Amalfitano, forced to flee Barcelona with his daughter to Mexico due to scandal, uses character names and themes from Bolaño’s previous novels and therefore feels somewhat familiar. Still, this is far from table scraps. The work may be incomplete, but Bolaño, periodically tinkering on the novel from the 1980s until his death, in 2003, had nearly created a fully realized world, one begging to be further fleshed out. But even in an unpolished manuscript, his capacity for spinning out pages-long sentences using language in new and surprising ways shows that this is quintessential Bolaño. For writers, the various stages of completion wonderfully illustrate Bolaño’s creative process. With more time alive, Bolaño could have made this another treasure of world literature. --Casey Bayer

Review

'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

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About the Author

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.