Woes of the True Policeman

The most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation. * The New York Times Book Review *Bolaño’s voice demands attention. * The New Yorker *It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius * Washington Post *Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world * Guardian *An event of language and devilish wit * Wall Street Journal *There is a power in these pages that very few writers ever achieve * Scotsman *Roberto Bolaño mastered the alchemy of turning the trivial into the sublime, the everyday into adventure. Bolaño is among the best at this diabolical skill.When I read Bolaño, I think: everything is possible again

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.