Roberto Bolano

""My favorite writer . . . 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. . . . Bolaño's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations. . . . A very good novel.""--Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times

""One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation . . . At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening.""--John Banville, The Nation

""A bizarre and mesmerizing novel . . . It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word.""--Esquire

""Roberto Bolaño's masterwork, at last translated into English, confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible.""--Vogue

""Combustible . . . A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book . . . When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice.""--Emily Carter Roiphe, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

""An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel.""--Elle

""Wildly enjoyable . . . Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family.""--The New York Times Book Review