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Roberto Bolaño requires us into an unusual, dim, but witty underworld in this unusually sensitive noir novel.A Bolaño vintage. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo is in a healthcare facility, suffering from an undiagnosed disease and not able to stop hiccuping. His partner calls on an associate of her friend Madame Reynaud: the mesmerist Pierre Pain. Discomfort, a bachelor, is in deep love with the widow Reynaud and wants to simply help.