The Savage Detectives
  • Published: 4 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529944211
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $22.99

The Savage Detectives

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29 Oct 2024
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4 Apr 2024
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4 Jul 2024
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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’s work – now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time

On New Year’s Eve, 1975, two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala.

Their quest: to track down the vanished poet Cesárea 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 Bolaño 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 Enríquez

‘Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world’ Guardian
  • Published: 4 July 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529944211
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and died in 2003 in Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost Latin American novelists of his generation and his work has won him numerous literary prizes.

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Nazi Literature in the Americas
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The Insufferable Gaucho
The Skating Rink
The Third Reich
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Praise for The Savage Detectives

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

Roberto Bolaño's masterwork

Vogue

An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel.

Elle

The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world.

Susan Sontag

For stunning wit, brutal honesty, loving humanity and a heart that bleeds into the simplest of words, no other writer ever came close.

Marlon James

An exemplary literary rebel

New York Review of Books
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