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Woes of the True Policeman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250037824)
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xAuthor 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, seeks solace in a romance of her own. Yet when she finds her father in bed with Castillo, Rosa is confronted with the full force of her crisis. What follows is an intimate police investigation of Amalfitano, leading to a finale of euphoria and heartbreak. Featuring characters and stories from The Savage Detectives and 2666, Roberto Bola o's Woes of the True Policeman mines the depths of art, memory, and desire--and marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature.Author: Roberto Bola
ISBN-10: 1250037824
ISBN-13: 9781250037824
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2013
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.55w x 0.72d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/12/2014 pg. 24
By Roberto Bola
xRoberto Bola 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 Rulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bola died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
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