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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, author of Our Share of Night

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

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: 1/4/2024
      ISBN13: 9781784879525, 978-1784879525
      ISBN10: 1784879525
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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, author of Our Share of Night

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

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