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 Cesarea 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 Bolano 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 Enriquez 'Bolano makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world' Guardian
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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.
Anything by Bolano falls in the MUST-READ category. This is a wonderful book to read... read it as if you are reading the last good book that you'll read before you die.
But my advice is, find another edition. This one is badly pasted, and for a book this size, you'll have pages coming off after one or two reads. Not recommended for a book which you want to return again and again.
I was a bit disappointed with the copy that I got: instead of a brand new book, I got one with yellowing pages ...