The Savage Detectives

The Savage Detectives
ISBN: 9780312427481
Publication Date: 4 March 2008

National Bestseller

In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. "The Savage Detectives "is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, "The Savage Detectives," received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolano died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. One of the "New York Times" 10 Best Books of the YearA "Washington Post" Top 10 Book of the YearA "New York Magazine" Top 10 Book of the YearA "Los Angeles Times" Favorite Book of the YearA "San Francisco Chronicle" Best Book of the YearA "Kirkus Reviews" Top 10 Book of the Year
In the novel that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. "The Savage Detectives "is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. "When I began reading "The Savage Detectives" last month, I had already devoured the first three of Bolano's books to arrive in English--two short novels, "By Night in Chile" and "Distant Star," and the story collection "Last Evenings on Earth"--and become a devoted fan. But I was still unprepared for "The Savage Detectives," the work that made...