ISBN: 9780330510578    Publisher: Pan Macmillan Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 144        Language: English

Cesar Vallejo, renowned Peruvian poet, lies dying in hospital he's hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife pins her hopes on the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. But after the appearance of two mysterious Spaniards, Monsieur Pain finds his access to the hospital barred and things soon go awry . . . Set in the rainy, crepuscular streets of an unsettled 1938 Paris, Monsieur Pain merges the best of Borges with Edgar Allan Poe, and its dark blend of unrequited desire, guilt, grief and betrayal makes this a gripping noir conspiracy as rich as it is strange.
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Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. 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, and won the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
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