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ROBERTO BOLANO'S Woes of the True Policeman

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Picador; Open market edition (January 17, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1447234588
ISBN-13: 978-1447234586
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches

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(synopsis)

When Oscar 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.

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Editorial Review

From Booklist

Yet another posthumous, unfinished novel by literary giant Bolaño has surfaced, though it’s said this will be the last. While it is no Savage Detectives (1998; tr. 2007), 2666 (2004; tr. 2008), nor many others, Bolaño fans, and there are many, will have no trouble delving right in to once again devour the master linguist’s every word. The story, about a Chilean professor, Amalfitano, forced to flee Barcelona with his daughter to Mexico due to scandal, uses character names and themes from Bolaño’s previous novels and therefore feels somewhat familiar. Still, this is far from table scraps. The work may be incomplete, but Bolaño, periodically tinkering on the novel from the 1980s until his death, in 2003, had nearly created a fully realized world, one begging to be further fleshed out. But even in an unpolished manuscript, his capacity for spinning out pages-long sentences using language in new and surprising ways shows that this is quintessential Bolaño. For writers, the various stages of completion wonderfully illustrate Bolaño’s creative process. With more time alive, Bolaño could have made this another treasure of world literature. --Casey Bayer

Review

'Hallucinatory, manic, fearful, comic ... Bolano must be read by anyone who loves the novel' Herald 'There is a power in these pages that very few writers ever achieve' Scotsman 'A further demonstration of Bolano's profound capacity to inhabit a seemingly limitless variety of perspectives with humor and empathy ... an event of language and devilish wit' Wall Street Journal

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About the Author

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

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ROBERTO BOLANO'S THE SKATING RINK

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Picador USA (June 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0330510533
ISBN-13: 978-0330510530
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches

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(synopsis)

When Nuria Marti, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene ...Rife with political corruption, s*x, jealousy and frustrated passion, The Skating Rink -- narrated in turn by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur -- is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.

Review

''There is much intensity at work, although 'The Skating Rink' leavens the melancholy of exile with an interest in the uncanny and a knack for the surrealist image.'' --Siddhartha Deb - Times Literary Supplement

''Exquisite . . . another unlikely masterpiece, as sui generis as all his books so far. The Skating Rinkmanages to honor genre conventions while simultaneously exploding them, creating a work of intense and unrealized longing.'' --Wyatt Mason - The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His novel, The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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ORHAN PAMUK'S THE WHITE CASTLE

Paperback – January 1, 2009

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Paperback: 145 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber (January 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571244777
ISBN-13: 978-0571244775
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 7.8 inches

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(synopsis)

THE WHITE CASTLE, ORHAN PAMUK S CELEBRATED FIRST NOVEL, IS THE TALE OF A YOUNG ITALIAN SCHOLAR CAPTURED BY PIRATES AND PUT UP FOR AUCTION AT THE ISTANBUL SLAVE MARKET. ACQUIRED BY A BRILLIANT TURKISH INVENTOR, HE IS SET TO WORK ON PROJECTS TO ENTERTAIN THE JADED SULTAN.

Biography

Orhan Pamuk, described as 'one of the freshest, most original voices in contemporary fiction' (Independent on Sunday), is the author of many books, including The White Castle, The Black Book and The New Life. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2004 Faber published the translation of his novel Snow, which The Times described as 'a novel of profound relevance to the present moment'. His most recent book was Istanbul, described by Jan Morris as 'irresistibly seductive'. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. He lives in Istanbul.

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T.C BOYLE'S WHEN THE KILLING IS DONE

Paperback – International Edition, March 1, 2012

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK (March 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1408821702
ISBN-13: 978-1408821701
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.3 x 7.8 inches

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The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is campaigning to exterminate them once and for all, but her systematic plan is in danger of sabotage by two notorious environmental activists, Anise Reed and Dave LaJoy. But when Alma's sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on the island of Santa Cruz - where Anise was brought up by her rancher mother - the stakes are raised and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real...

About the Author:

T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.