Re: Spanish Group
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:16 pm
Just wanted to chime in and say that Roberto Bolaño's amazing multifaceted novel Los detectives salvajes was released as an audiobook a couple of months ago. It's more than 27 hours long, and features several narrators (that is, the audiobook does. The novel itself is a super fragmented mosaic of more than 50 distinctive voices that combined tell a compound story about two protagonists who themselves are never given an opportunity to speak up and tell their own story).
I've listened to the first four hours, and it is just as great as I remembered from reading the Norwegian translation. It starts out in Mexico City in the mid seventies, with explosive youthful energy mixed with the often accompanying youthful naivety (and lots of Mexican slang). But the storylines soon diverge towards other places on earth, and things get more sober and melancholic. It's one of my favorite books in any language, and I'm so happy finally being able to listen to it in the original.
You can get it over at audible, but with all the drm and hassle, I got it at audioteka instead. There's a free sample of the first two hours.
I've listened to the first four hours, and it is just as great as I remembered from reading the Norwegian translation. It starts out in Mexico City in the mid seventies, with explosive youthful energy mixed with the often accompanying youthful naivety (and lots of Mexican slang). But the storylines soon diverge towards other places on earth, and things get more sober and melancholic. It's one of my favorite books in any language, and I'm so happy finally being able to listen to it in the original.
You can get it over at audible, but with all the drm and hassle, I got it at audioteka instead. There's a free sample of the first two hours.