Description: Originally published 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.
Brief description: 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, Spain, at the age of fifty.
Review Quotes:
"The most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation." --The New York Times Book Review
"One of our greatest writers...Latin American letters (wherever it may reside) has never had a greater, more disturbing avenging angel than Bolaño." --Junot Díaz, The New York Times Book Review "The writing never feels stale but, rather incredibly, shines anew....The publication of a Bolaño novel, complete or not, is never anything less than an event of language and devilish wit." --The Wall Street Journal "Bolaño's voice demands attention." --The New Yorker "Bolaño [seems] to come from an understanding that people are portholes; that a creation can represent singular space that otherwise would go unknown....He allows the novel to vibrate through its box." --Vice "Indelible Bolaño...[Woes of the True Policeman] may offer insight into the writer's larger project." --Los Angeles Times "Full of delights...like watching a master magician unpacking his bag of tricks." --The New Orleans Times-Picayune