The Savage Detectives

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.

On New Year's Eve, 1975, two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey through our darkening universe. Told, shared, and mythologised by a generation of lovers, rebels, and readers, their testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of all time.

Translated by Natasha Wimmer

Roberto Bolaño was a game changer - his field was politics, poetry, and melancholia. He could be funny, he could be literate, he could be devastating. And his writing was always unparalleled - Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night

Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world - Guardian