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Roberto Bolaño 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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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. This novel is an elegy for a generation. Expand reviewsAfrican American Literature Book Club is proud to partner with Libro.fm to give you a great audiobook experience.