Woes of the True Policeman, Roberto Bolano
Woes of the True Policeman, Roberto Bolano
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Woes of the True Policeman

Author: Roberto Bolano

Narrator: Armando Duran

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2012


Synopsis

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Oscar Amalfitano - an exiled Chilean university professor and widower - through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a former student, and his retreat from scandal in Barcelona. Forced to leave Barcelona for Santa Teresa, a Mexican city close to the U.S. border where women are being killed in unprecedented numbers, Amalfitano soon begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintings. Meanwhile, Rosa, Amalfitano's daughter, engages in her own epistolary romance with a basketball player from Barcelona, while still trying to cope with her mother's early death and her father's secrets. After finding Castillo in bed with her father, Rosa is forced to confront her own crisis. What follows is an intimate police investigation of Amalfitano that involves a series of dark twists, cu

About Roberto Bolano

Roberto Bolano 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 Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hakan on January 03, 2021

Yeni yıla bir Bolano kitabıyla başlamak gibisi yok... Gerçek bir Polisin Çilesi, Bolano’nun ölümünden sonra kalan dosyalarından kitaplaştırılmış. Dolayısıyla bir dağınıklığı, elden geçirilmemişliği hissedilebiliyor. Ancak Bolano’ya, benim gibi, pek de açıklanması kolay olmayan bir hayranlığınız vars......more

Goodreads review by Greg on November 07, 2012

Life, of course, which puts the essential books under our noses only when they are strictly essential, or on some cosmic whim The Part about Death Roberto Bolano, apparently, worked on this novel from roughly 1980 until his death in 2003. He never published it. It's not a finished novel. He mentioned......more

Goodreads review by Guillermo on October 12, 2020

Hasta donde tengo entendido, esta novela de Bolaño no goza de gran aceptación, ni por parte de sus seguidores, ni mucho menos de sus detractores. Hubo un momento en que Bolaño significó para mí un universo literario en donde creí encontrar las respuestas a todas mis cuestiones acerca del cosmos de la......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on February 17, 2014

Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time? He couldn't remember, all he could remember was that at some point this was what he believed. Calvino notes in his Six Memos that Borges began writing fiction as......more

Goodreads review by Carla on June 08, 2016

Estranha arte narrativa esta de Roberto Bolaño que me obriga a gostar tanto de um livro tão inenarrável.......more