The Savage Detectives
- Author Roberto Bolaño
- Narrator Armando Duran, Eddie Lopez
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 4 July 2024
- Run Time 26 hours and 58 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Politics.
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New Year’s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala.
Their quest: to track down the mythical, 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
© Roberto Bolaño 1998 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
Critics Review
This novel is an elegy for a generation.
The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful.
It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius. The Savage Detectives alone should grant him immortality.
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.
An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel.
Roberto Bolaño’s masterwork
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
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