The savage detectives

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New Years Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert, and obscurity, decades before.

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SKU: 9781784879525 Category: Tags: , Publisher/imprint : Vintage Classics
Page count : 608
Published on 4th July, 2024

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New Year’s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala.

Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey through our darkening universe. Told, shared and mythologised by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, their testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of all time.

TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER

‘Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia. He could be funny, he could be literate, he could be devastating. And his writing was always unparalleled’ Mariana Enrìquez, author of Our Share of Night

‘Bolaño makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world’ Guardian

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Weight 0.461 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 13 × 4 cm
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