The savage detectives / Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003, author.

Contributor:

Wimmer, Natasha, translator.

Standardized Title:

Detectives salvajes. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Poets, Mexican--Fiction.

Poets, Mexican.

Fugitives from justice--Mexico--Fiction.

Fugitives from justice.

Underground literature--Fiction.

Underground literature.

Latin American poetry--Fiction.

Latin American poetry.

Mexico City (Mexico)--Fiction.

Mexico City (Mexico).

Chilean fiction--20th century.

Chilean fiction.

Seventies (20th century)--Fiction.

Militants--Fiction.

Literary movements--Fiction.

Men--Friendship--Fiction.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Psychological fiction, Chilean.

Latin American fiction--21st century.

Spanish fiction--21st century--Translations into English.

Mexico.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Suspense fiction.

Genre:

Chilean fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Fiction

Fiction.

Physical Description:

577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Summary:

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 Cesarea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.

Bolano 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 21st century.

ISBN:

0374191484

9780374191481

OCLC:

70265594

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