Monsieur Pain - print on demand

Cesar Vallejo, renowned Peruvian poet, lies dying in hospital - he''s hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife pins her hopes on the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. But after the appearance of two mysterious Spaniards, Monsieur Pain finds his access to the hospital barred and things soon go awry . . . Set in the rainy, crepuscular streets of an unsettled 1938 Paris, Roberto Bolano''s Monsieur Pain merges the best of Borges with Edgar Allan Poe, and its dark blend of unrequited desire, guilt, grief and betrayal makes this a gripping noir conspiracy as rich as it is strange.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Bolano, Roberto Bolaño
• Assisted by: Chris Andrews (Translation), Andrews Chris (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2016
• EAN: 9781509828784
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-2878-4
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France, Fiction in translation, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery