The Savage Detectives
$28.37
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’s work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.
On New Year’s Eve, 1975, two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the 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 r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879525 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784879525 |
| Author: | Roberto Bolaño |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 463g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 40mm |
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Critics Review
This novel is an elegy for a generation. * Independent *
The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful. * Times Literary Supplement *
It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius. The Savage Detectives alone should grant him immortality. * Washington Post *
My favorite writer … The Savage Detectives is an ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes past and those yet to come. – Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love
An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel. * Elle *
Roberto Bolaño’s masterwork * Vogue *
The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world.
For stunning wit, brutal honesty, loving humanity and a heart that bleeds into the simplest of words, no other writer ever came close.
An exemplary literary rebel * New York Review of Books *
About The Author
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolano 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.
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