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Roberto Bolaño - Monsieur Pain

Released: 19/01/2010 New Directions
Bolaño’s latest posthumous release features a Peruvian poet living in 1938 Paris and suffering from an extreme case of hiccups. Monsiuer Pain, a famous hypnotist, is enlisted to provide a cure. He fails his patient and Pain’s guilt leads him into an occult underworld. For more information visit: http://www.panmacmillan.com/Picador/ManageBlog.aspx?BlogID=a3309c06-7d0e-4bc9-95ad-a2… Buy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0811217140?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…
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The New York Times“A surrealist’s attic of unlikely juxtapositions...” The novel melds existential anxiety to political terror in a measure peculiar to Bolaño - imagine the protagonist of Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart” if he were being interrogated by the secret police...
 
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