Roberto Bolaño was a Chilean writer and poet, posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Cricle Award for his novel 2666. Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives) won the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize.
‘Then Julie extracts her victim’s heart and eats it.’
‘I said to myself that maybe he wasn’t about to die.’
‘When I come across these young writers it makes me want to cry.’
‘Only the inventors survive.’
