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With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer.
Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times.
New Year’s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet.
Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe – our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century.
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Savagely comic yet equally tender . . . This novel is an elegy for a generation. Source: Independent
The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful. Source: Times Literary Supplement
A portrait of people for whom literature is bread and water, sex and death. The abiding message to be taken from Bolaño’s novel, and maybe from his fraught life, too: books matter. Source: GQ
It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius. The Savage Detectives alone should grant him immortality. Source: Washington Post
Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world. Source: Guardian
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An exhilarating, must-read novel from one of Latin America’s pre-eminent writers, and author of the acclaimed masterpiece 2666.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0330509527
- ISBN 13 9780330509527
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages608
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