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The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Before his death in 2003, Roberto Bolaño was little known in the United States. Perhaps everything else makes its way easily across the Mexican border – people, drugs, manufactured goods, killer bees - but the border patrol doesn’t require a big fence to stop literary works at the Rio Grande. Indifferent publishers and a shortage of good translations ar…

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