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Author of The Savage Detectives & 2666Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor Óscar 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 Bolaño'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.°°°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. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes,

Who reads Woes of the True Policeman: A Novel?

Author

Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer (translation)

Publisher

Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Macmillan

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374266745

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.64 / 5 (999 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14