The Savage Detectives (Audiobook)

from Niecierpek

Brilliant. It may be the best creative autobiography I have read in my life, with Arturo Belano, and perhaps Garcia Madero too, as alter egos of the author. And, certainly a humorous and slightly mocking look at the literary world, poetry, poets, their critics and publishers, in Mexico in the las...

from BooksOn23rd

A fantastic trip. This book starts as the diary entries of a young poet who joins an avant-garde poetry collective and then the book turns into something almost indescribable, taking the reading from Mexico to South America to Europe and Africa and back, finally ending in the Sonora desert. Full ...

from RossWilliam

I work in a bookstore so naturally when "2666" came out it sparked my interest. I did my due diligence on Bolano since it was the first I had heard of him. When I came across "Savage Detectives" I thought it would be a better place to start, less of a commitment, 900 pages was a bit to many for m...

from papalaz

First off let me give a big tip of the hat to Larry Riley for bringing this gem to my attention. I respect Larry's opinion and overcame an antipathy to recent Latin American literature that had developed as I read more and more magical realism coming from that continent. How glad am I that I did?...

from Jannes

Humongous, somewhat demanding, and very worthwhile. I overuse the epithet "epic", but this time it really is appropriate. Has awoken a lust for Latin American litterature beyond Borges, García Márquez and Vargas Llosa. Read, read - you won't be sorry.