A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first timeOn New Year's Eve, 1975, two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala.Their quest- to track down the 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, author of Our Share of Night'Bolano makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world' Guardian
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
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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