. Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. "The Savage Detectives" was published in 1998, but its heart belongs to the Mexico City of the mid-1970s, when Bolaño was an avant-garde poet bristling with mad agendas. Well worth checking out and it drove me back to reading my edition of "Hopscotch" by Cortazar who is given several name-checks in the novel. . . "The Savage Detectives" is a high-end tour-de-force, includes the testimony of so many characters and the thread of enough lives and stories that it warrants a … 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. The Savage Detectives: A Novel eBook: Bolaño, Roberto, Wimmer, Natasha: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store Buy Savage Detectives, the Reprint by Bolano, Roberto (ISBN: 8601419241095) from Amazon's Book Store. 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