New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Ces\u00e1rea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.<\/p>\n
The explosive first long work by \u201cthe most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time\u201d (Ilan Stavans,\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/i>),\u00a0The Savage Detectives\u00a0<\/i>follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances.<\/p>\n
A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bola\u00f1o traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde.\u00a0The Savage Detectives<\/i>\u00a0is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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