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This is one of the most beautiful and strangely compelling novels I’ve ever read. Centered around a small group of mostly failed poets in Mexico City in the 1970s, it veers to Spain, Africa, and back to Mexico in surprising and wonderful ways. Part crime story, part hero’s journey, the book is funny, poignant and one hundred percent unique.
— RicoNational Bestseller
In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolao 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.
An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since Garca Mrquez. 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. . . . Bolao'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 Bolao'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 . . . Bolao beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family. The New York Times Book Review