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The Savage Detectives

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Length 26 hours 57 minutes
Language English
Narrators Armando Duran & Eddie Lopez

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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

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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Author:

Narrators:
Armando Duran & Eddie Lopez

ISBN:
9781529944211

Length:
26 hours 57 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Random House

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Edition:
Unabridged

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Reviews

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 reviews
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