An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event. . . . [He is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since Garcia Marquez. -- San Francisco Chronicle
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. . . . Bolano'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 Bolano'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 . . . Bolano beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family. --The New York Times Book Review