"An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character
and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge
from Latin America since García Márquez."--San Francisco
Chronicle
"My favorite writer . . . 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. . . .
Bolaño''s book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to
his readers'' conventional expectations. . . . A very good
novel."--Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times
"One of the most respected and influential writers of [his]
generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively,
frightening."--John Banville, The Nation
"A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It''s a lustful
story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written
word."--Esquire
"Roberto Bolaño''s masterwork, at last translated into English,
confirms this Chilean''s status as Latin America''s literary enfant
terrible."--Vogue
"Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . .
. When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no
engine more powerful than the human voice."--Emily Carter Roiphe,
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
"An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque
novel."--Elle
"Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his
comedy and his pathos in the same family."--The New York Times
Book Review