A story of hopeless love, desperate grief and the power of guilt: MONSIEUR PAIN is a hallucinatory masterwork by the great Roberto Bolano. César Vallejo, renowned Peruvian poet, lies dying in hospital. His wife pins her hopes on the mesmerist Pierre Pain. Set in 1938 Paris, MONSIEUR PAIN merges the best of Borges with Edgar Allen Poe, making a gripping noir conspiracy as rich as it is strange.