by Roberto Bolaño · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420423937
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Considered one of the best and most original fictions written in recent decades, 'The Savage Detectives' is a novel that merges elements of detective narrative, road novel, biographical account, and chronicle. The story follows two young Latin American poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, on an adventure that spans several decades and various countries. Their search for the mysterious Mexican writer Cesárea Tinajero serves as a starting point for a journey marked by love, death, the desire for freedom, humor, and literature. This work was awarded the Herralde and Rómulo Gallegos prizes, and acclaimed by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post as one of the best novels published in 2007.
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives, and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages".
