num_pages: 577
description: 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 Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.The explosive first long work by “the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives 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.A 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. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.
language: English
title: The Savage Detectives
titlecomplete: The Savage Detectives
characters: Auxilio Lacouture, Cesárea Tinajero, Julio César Álamo, Angélica Font, Alberto Moore, Ulises Lima, María Font, Arturo Belano, Laura Jáuregui, Ernesto San Epifanio
genres: Spanish Literature, 20th Century, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Contemporary
ratings_count: 42019
places: Mexico City (México City)
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Premio Herralde de Novela, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: BTBA Best Translated Book Award
category: Fiction shortlist, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Metų verstinė knyga
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux