The Savage Detectives

With a new afterword by Natasha Wimmer âe~Savagely comic yet equally tender . . . This novel is an elegy for a generationâe(tm) Independent New Yearâe(tm)s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet. Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe âe" our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century. âe~The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightfulâe(tm) Times Literary Supplement âe~A portrait of people for whom literature is bread and water, sex and death. The abiding message to be taken from Bolañoâe(tm)s novel, and maybe from his fraught life, too: books matterâe(tm) GQ âe~Itâe(tm)s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius. The Savage Detectives alone should grant him immortalityâe(tm) Washington Post âe~Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the worldâe(tm) Guardian