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Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.
Savagely comic yet equally tender . . . This novel is an elegy for a generation. * Independent * The comic frenzy, the inventiveness of character and situation, and the mood-soaked depiction of 1970s Mexico is delightful. * Times Literary Supplement * Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world. * Guardian * A portrait of people for whom literature is bread and water, sex and death. The abiding message to be taken from Bolaño’s novel, and maybe from his fraught life, too: books matter. * GQ * It’s no exaggeration to call Bolaño a genius. The Savage Detectives alone should grant him immortality. * Washington Post *
