Roberto Bolano

Broschiertes Buch

The Savage Detectives

Beschreibung

An exhilarating, must-read novel from one of Latin America's pre-eminent writers, and author of the acclaimed masterpiece 2666.

Autor

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives won the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize and Natasha Wimmer¿s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation", in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 20306
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780330509527
• ISBN-10: 0330509527
• Artikelnr.: 26378946

Rezensionen

Savagely comic yet equally tender . . . This novel is an elegy for a generation. Independent