THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES

u003cpu003eu003cbu003e u003ciu003eThe Savage Detectives u003c/iu003eis an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. u003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eNational Bestselleru003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eNew 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 Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eThe explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, u003ciu003eLos Angeles Timesu003c/iu003e), u003ciu003eThe Savage Detectives u003c/iu003efollows 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.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eA polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño 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. u003ciu003eThe Savage Detectives u003c/iu003eis a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.u003c/pu003e