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The Savage Detectives
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A total trip of a postemodern novel that plays with the form itself; this is the book that made Bolaño's name in the U.S. (And helped pave the way for the massive success of 2666.)
National Bestseller
A New York Times Best Book of the Twenty-First Century
The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.
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...