The Savage Detectives - Brossura

Bolaño, Roberto

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330445154 ISBN 13: 9780330445153

Casa editrice: Picador, 2008

Riassunto

With a new afterword by Natasha Wimmer `Savagely comic yet equally tender . . . This novel is an elegy for a generation' Independent New Year's Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet. Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe - our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century. `The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful' Times Literary Supplement `A portrait of people for whom literature is bread and water, sex and death. The abiding message to be taken from Bolano's novel, and maybe from his fraught life, too: books matter' GQ `It's no exaggeration to call Bolano a genius. The Savage Detectives alone should grant him immortality' Washington Post `Bolano makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world' Guardian

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

An exhilarating, must-read novel from one of Latin America’s pre-eminent writers, and author of the acclaimed masterpiece 2666.

L'autore:

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0330445154
• ISBN 13: 9780330445153
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 592