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The Savage Detectives (Picador 40th Anniversary Editn)

The Savage Detectives (Picador 40th Anniversary Editn)

by RobertoBolano (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

First published in Spanish in 1998, The Savage Detectives was immediately hailed as a critical success, wining the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. But with the 2007 English-language translation the book became more than a bestseller - it began the global sensation of Bolanomania.

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, this remarkable quest 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.

In 2012 Picador celebrated its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 624
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 02 Feb 2012
ISBN 10: 1447202856
ISBN 13: 9781447202851

Media Reviews
An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since Garcia Marquez. -- San Francisco Chronicle 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 The Savage Detectives is deeply satisfying. . . . Bolano's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . . . A very good novel. --Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening. --John Banville, The Nation A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word. -- Esquire Roberto Bolano's masterwork, at last translated into English, confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible. -- Vogue Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . . . When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice. --Emily Carter Roiphe, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel. -- Elle Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolano beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family. --The New York Times Book Review
Author Bio
Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review, and won the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.