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 Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by The New York Times as “the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation,” he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.

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