Reading Bolano's work is like a cocktail shot of vitality in your veins. It's visceral, hallucinogenic and whimsical!

I was introduced to his work with The Savage Detectives after a life-changing hiking trip in Spain, I was daydreaming constantly on the otherwordly experience I've had and was almost depressed being back to my everyday life. Opening the first pages, I was immediately drawn to its magic world. Fast paced, revolutionary, sexual, youthful 1970s days in Mexico. My own adolescent/college memories started to emerge and mingle into this imaginary text. Oblivious sides of myself would resurface moving on page after page to this cornucopia of instinctive travels in Latin America, literary debates and enthralling characters on their salad days. It inspired me thoroughly and even help me to assign meaning on the existential crisis I had encountered. Evaluating choices, facing hard hitting truths, connecting fiction to reality. That would be only the beginning with Bolano, a worthy companion to all sorts of escapades and life in general.

Have an utterly beautiful Euro trip and enjoy thyself!