The Savage Detectives
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Description
New Year’s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala.Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey through our darkening universe. Told, shared and mythologised by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, their testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of all time.TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER‘Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia. He could be funny, he could be literate, he could be devastating. And his writing was always unparalleled’ Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night‘Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world’ Guardian
Additional information
Weight | 0.461 kg |
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Dimensions | 4 × 13 × 19.7 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 672 |
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Year Published | 2024-7-4 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 1784879525 |
About The Author | Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth. |
Review Quote | This novel is an elegy for a generation. |
Other text | The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful. |