Woes of the True Policeman

by Roberto Bolaño

Book Overview

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bola o's last, unfinished novel.

The novel follows scar 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374266743
• ISBN13: 9780374266745
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"