Roberto Bolano

Woes of the True Policeman

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'Hallucinatory, manic, fearful, comic . . . Bolaño must be read by anyone who loves the novel' HeraldCrushed by a devastating scandal, university professor Óscar 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, Woes of the True Policeman explores the power of art, memory, and de… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wimmer, Natasha (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-4472-3330-5
EAN: 9781447233305
Produktnummer: 15358429
Verlag: Pan Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.7 cm 226 g
Gewicht: 226
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Roberto Bolaño 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 Rómulo 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. Bolaño 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.