Woes of the True Policeman - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Roberto Bola?o, Natasha Wimmer (Translator)Publish date:2013-10-22Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250037824ISBN-10:1250037824UPC:9781250037824Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:ChileSize:8.27 x 5.55 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC5E09N3KR
Woes of the True Policeman
Author of The Savage Detectives and 2666
Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor scar Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa--a Mexican city close to the U.S. border, where women are being killed in staggering numbers. There, Amalfitano begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintings, while his daughter, Rosa, reeling from the weight of his secrets,...Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250037824ISBN-10:1250037824UPC:9781250037824Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:ChileSize:8.27 x 5.55 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SC5E09N3KR
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. He is the author of The Third Reich, The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
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