Roberto Bolaño

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Woes of the True PolicemanHardcover, 13 November 2012

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Print Length
250 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published
13 Nov 2012
ISBN-10
0374266743
ISBN-13
9780374266745

Description

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel.

The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano--an exiled Chilean university professor and widower--through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a former student, and his retreat from scandal in Barcelona.

Forced to leave Barcelona for Santa Teresa, a Mexican city close to the U.S. border where women are being killed in unprecedented numbers, Amalfitano soon begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintings. Meanwhile, Rosa, Amalfitano's daughter, engages in her own epistolary romance with a basketball player from Barcelona, while still trying to cope with her mother's early death and her father's secrets. After finding Castillo in bed with her father, Rosa is forced to confront her own crisis. What follows is an intimate police investigation of Amalfitano that involves a series of dark twists, culminating in a finale full of euphoria and heartbreak.

Featuring characters and stories from his other books, Woes of the True Policeman invites the reader more than ever into the world of Roberto Bolaño. It is an exciting, kaleidoscopic novel, lyrical and intense, yet darkly humorous. Exploring the roots of memory and the limits of art, Woes of the True Policeman marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature.

Product Details

Author:
Roberto Bolaño
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
13 November 2012
Dimensions:
23.42 x 15.98 x 2.39 cm
ISBN-10:
0374266743
ISBN-13:
9780374266745
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
250
Weight:
458.13 gm

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