The Defectors

In his final interview Roberto Bolaño says I would like to have been a homicide detective much more than a writer... Id have been someone who could come back to the scene of the crime alone by night...This aloneness this perfect solitude is very much at the core of The Defectors a book of odd and uncanny episodes about people trying to defect from reality. There is a secret policeman in 80s communist Prague who becomes obsessed with a fiercely independent female detective novelist. There is a Bu...See More