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Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.

When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud, the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. Pain, in love and eager to impress, agrees to help. But on a night that ''smells of something strange'', things soon go awry...

A wonderfully oneiric novella that blends the finest of Edgar Allan Poe with Jorge Luis Borges and Bolano''s truly astonishing alchemical gifts, Monsieur Pain is a gripping noir conspiracy as rich as it is strange.

TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS

A surrealist nightmare, with overtones of Edgar Allan Poe and Raymond Chandler' The Times

This marvellous little yarn is dark, mysterious and rich in surprises... If you have yet to enter the daringly kaleidoscopic labyrinth that is Roberto Bolano''s imagination, this is a lively place to begin what will

Monsieur Pain

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Publishing
      Published 10 March 2024
      ISBN-13 9781784879464
      978-1784879464
      ISBN-10 1784879460
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death.

      When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud, the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. Pain, in love and eager to impress, agrees to help. But on a night that ''smells of something strange'', things soon go awry...

      A wonderfully oneiric novella that blends the finest of Edgar Allan Poe with Jorge Luis Borges and Bolano''s truly astonishing alchemical gifts, Monsieur Pain is a gripping noir conspiracy as rich as it is strange.

      TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS

      A surrealist nightmare, with overtones of Edgar Allan Poe and Raymond Chandler' The Times

      This marvellous little yarn is dark, mysterious and rich in surprises... If you have yet to enter the daringly kaleidoscopic labyrinth that is Roberto Bolano''s imagination, this is a lively place to begin what will

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