Woes of the True Policeman

Crushed 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, Roberto Bolaño'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.

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'Hallucinatory, manic, fearful, comic . . . Bolaño must be read by anyone who loves the novel' Herald

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño
• Assisted by: Natasha Wimmer (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9781447233305
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-3330-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Latin America, Spain, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / Gay