<p><b>New Year¿s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala.</b><br><br>Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Ces¿a Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. <i>The Savage Detectives </i>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.<br><br>TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER<br><br><b>¿Roberto Bola¿o 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 Enr¿ez, author of <i>Our Share of Night</i></b><br><br><b>¿Bola¿o makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world¿ <i>Guardian</i></b></p>