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Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes(The Savage Detectives), and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages. The New York Times described him as the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation.






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The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño - Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publisher presentation: New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work...
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