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Copyright © 2011 by the heirs of Roberto Bolaño Translation copyright © 2012 by Natasha Wimmer All rights reserved

Originally published in 2011 by Editorial Anagrama, Spain, as
Los sinsabores del verdadero policía
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux First American edition, 2012

An excerpt from
Woes of the True Policeman
originally appeared, in slightly different form, in
Harper’s Magazine
.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bolaño, Roberto, 1953–2003.

[Sinsabores del verdadero policía. English]

Woes of the true policeman / Roberto Bolaño; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. — 1st American ed.

p. cm.

“Originally published in 2011 by Editorial Anagrama, Spain, as Los sinsabores del verdadero policía”—T.p. verso.

ISBN 978-0-374-26674-5 (hardback) I. Wimmer, Natasha. II. Title.

PQ8098.12.O38 S5613 2012

863'.64—dc23

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