| The Savage Detectives Contributor(s): Bolano, Roberto (Author), Wimmer, Natasha (Translator), Lopez, Eddie (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433292629 ISBN-13: 9781433292620 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $126.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: This wildly inventive novel tells the story of two modern-day Quixotesthe last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itselfon a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.99" H x 6.59" W x 7.27" (1.30 lbs) |
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| Publisher Description: The late Chilean writer Roberto Bola o has been called the Garc a M rquez of his generation. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Bola o tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe. Brilliantly rendered into English by Natasha Wimmer, the acclaimed translator of Bola o's other great masterwork, 2666, The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, wildly inventive and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lopez, Eddie: - Eddie Lopez, a northern California native, earned his BFA in theater from the California Institute of the Arts. He has worked professionally in Los Angeles as an actor and is currently with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He began recording audiobooks for family road trips at the age of eight on his home cassette deck. Duran, Armando: -Armando Duran has appeared in films, television, and regional theaters throughout the West Coast. For the last decade he has been a member of the resident acting company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 2009 he was named by AudioFile as Best Voice in Biography and History for his narration of Che Guevara. A native Californian, he divides his time between Los Angeles and Ashland, Oregon. Bolano, Roberto: -Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, France, and Spain. He has been acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time and as the real thing and the rarest by Susan Sontag. Among his many prizes are the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela and the Premio Romulo Gallegos. Bolano is widely considered the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry before his death at the age of fifty. Wimmer, Natasha: -Natasha Wimmer's translation of Bolano's The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and New York Times. Her translation of his 2666 won the National Book Award's Best Novel of the Year as well as the PEN Prize. |