Since there are so many fantastic reviews of The Savage Detectives, I thought I would offer a slightly different approach as per below. . In Part 1, the first-person narrator, seventeen-year-old Juan Garcia Madero, tells us right off he is reading the erotic fiction of Pierre Louys (incidentally, one of Louys's novels was made into a Luis Buñuel film – That Obscure Object of Desire). . Well worth checking out and it drove me back to reading my edition of "Hopscotch" by Cortazar who is given several name-checks in the novel. 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. The Savage Detectives is an ark bearing all the strange salvage of poetry and youth from catastrophes past and those yet to come.” ―Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love “The Savage Detectives is deeply satisfying. . . He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. "The Savage Detectives" is a high-end tour-de-force, includes the testimony of so many characters and the thread of enough lives and stories that it warrants a … Bolaño's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Buy Chilean Novels (Study Guide): 2666: A Novel, the Savage Detectives, Ardiente Paciencia, by Night in Chile, the Obscene Bird of Night by Books, LLC, Group, Books, Books, LLC online on Amazon.ae at best prices. At other times, 'The Savage Detectives' reads like Kerouac. “The Savage Detectives” was published in 1998, but its heart belongs to the Mexico City of the mid-1970s, when Bolaño was an avant-garde poet bristling with mad agendas. I think the nearest parallel with art would be a Jackson Pollack painting with sudden shifts of direction and emphasis, let alone colour. . . . "The Savage Detectives" was published in 1998, but its heart belongs to the Mexico City of the mid-1970s, when Bolaño was an avant-garde poet bristling with mad agendas. . Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. . Fast and free shipping free returns cash on … Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. The Savage Detectives: A Novel eBook: Bolaño, Roberto, Wimmer, Natasha: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store . . Bolaño's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . 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