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Name: Los detectives salvajes
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Author: Roberto Bolaño

📘 Los detectives salvajes by Roberto Bolaño

This volume compiles three previously unpublished novellas—"Patria," "Sepulcros de vaqueros," and "Comedia del horror de Francia"—written by Roberto Bolaño, a leading figure in contemporary Spanish literature. Through the restless detective Arturo Belano, the stories weave together motifs of evil, violence, history, irony, and the search for meaning across Mexico, Chile, and beyond.

First publish date: 2007

Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction

Authors: Roberto Bolaño

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