One of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century.
New Year’s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet.
There’s a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter. But as I was saying, I closed my eyes, and I heard Lima clear his throat, then I heard the somewhat uncomfortable silence (if it’s possible to hear such a thing, which I doubt), that settled around him, and finally I heard his voice, reading the best poem I had ever heard.
“Part road movie, part joyful nostalgic confession. A masterpiece.” The Telegraph
“It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius. The Savage Detectives alone should grant him immortality.” Washington Post
“The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful” Times Literary Supplement
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