Savagely comic yet equally tender . . . This novel is an elegy for a generation.

Independent

The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful.

Times Literary Supplement

A portrait of people for whom literature is bread and water, sex and death. The abiding message to be taken from Bolaño’s novel, and maybe from his fraught life, too: books matter.

GQ

Se alle

It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius. <i>The Savage Detectives</i> alone should grant him immortality.

Washington Post

Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world.

Guardian

With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer.Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. New Year’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 – 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.
Les mer
An exhilarating, must-read novel from one of Latin America’s pre-eminent writers, and author of the acclaimed masterpiece 2666.
Savagely comic yet equally tender . . . This novel is an elegy for a generation.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780330509527
Publisert
2009-09-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Picador
Vekt
396 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
41 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
608

Forfatter
Oversetter

Biographical note

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives won the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize and Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation", in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666.