Monsieur Pain

Author(s): Roberto Bolano

General

Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano' Sunday Times 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.

$22.99 AUD

Stock: 0


Add to Wishlist


Product Information

Bolano writes with such elegance, verve and style and is immensely readable' - Guardian His fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental' - Times Literary Supplement

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His novel, 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. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

General Fields

  • : 9780330510578
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Picador
  • : 0.135
  • : July 2011
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Roberto Bolano
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 863.64