Woes of the Real Policeman-------pan macmillan
Taking us back to the world and characters of his acclaimed
masterpiece,2666, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño’s last,
unfinished, novel.
When Óscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive
affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has
no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past,
or the death of his beautiful wife, the scandalous exposure of this
relationship will change him for ever.
Forced to flee with his
seventeen-year-old daughter, Amalfitano finds himself in Santa Teresa, a
sprawling town on the US–Mexico border. Haunted by dark tales of
murdered women, this mythical place is populated by mysterious
characters. We meet Castillo, who makes his living selling his forgeries
of Larry Rivers paintings to wealthy Texans; Pancho Monje, a son born
of six generations of foundlings; and Arcimboldi, a magician and writer
whose work has been important to Amalfitano for some time, but whose
return to prominence is just beginning.
Woes of the True
Policeman is an exciting, kaleidoscopic novel, lyrical and intense yet
darkly humorous. Exploring the limits of memory and the power of art, it
returns to the world and characters of Bolaño’s masterpiece,2666, and
marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature.